Gippsland East electorate
Mr T BULL (Gippsland East) (12:47): (1855) My constituency question is to the Premier. The government has announced it will fund half the cost of boundary fencing materials where private freehold abuts state forest or national parks. The information I seek from the Premier is whether he will support the same deal—that being funding half the cost of boundary fencing materials—where private freehold meets VicRoads road reserves. The reason I ask this question is that there is a high level of anger within my community around the lack of maintenance that has been undertaken on road reserves. In many cases these road reserves acted as a wick. A property would not be burned, but the fire would burn on the road reserve to an adjacent property. They want to know if they will be looked after in this regard because they have lost a lot of private property as a result of this. If not, how will this be better adhered to and planned in the future?