Eastern Metropolitan Region
Dr BACH (Eastern Metropolitan) (12:16): (1626) My constituency matter today is for the Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop in the other place, and my question is: how many homes in my electorate are set to be demolished to make way for the Suburban Rail Loop? Over recent months a number of residents in my constituency have reached out to me to inform me that they have been informed that their house is to be demolished, and now I have been made aware that the owners of a beautiful interwar house in Elland Avenue in Box Hill have been told that their house is to be destroyed. The Labor government wants to tax young people and tax new homes coming into the market and destroy older homes. It would not need to do this of course if it managed major projects better than it does—we are facing $24 billion of cost blowouts. These are serious issues for my constituents. They repeatedly tell me that they can get no clarity either from the relevant authority or from the government, which constantly seeks to shift the blame. Will the minister come clean and tell my constituents how many of their homes are set to be destroyed?