Adjournment
Maryborough train line Myki readers
Ms STALEY (Ripon) (19:00): (2049) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Public Transport, and the issue that I want to raise is around getting Myki readers into Creswick, Talbot and Maryborough. I have raised this with the previous Minister for Public Transport, both by letter and I think by adjournment, although it may have been by a constituency question. The problem is that we do not have Myki readers at Creswick or Talbot or Maryborough stations. We used to have a retailer in Talbot, the post office, where you could buy a Myki card, but they have now closed so there is nowhere that you can buy a Myki at Talbot. There is also nowhere in Creswick to buy a Myki card, either on the station or nearby. The retailer who was near Maryborough is no longer near there, so people have to go a long way.
I have been raising this repeatedly, and I get told that the regional network development plan is the answer to this. But that has not been updated since 2016, and we still have not got an answer. The action I seek is that the minister at last commits to putting Myki readers on the three stations along the Maryborough line so that travellers on that line can access rail in the same way that those in Ballarat or in fact Melbourne can access rail. With that, I ask the minister to act.