Thursday, 18 August 2022
Members statements
Suburban Rail Loop
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- Ms CROZIER
- Mr LEANE
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- Ms PATTEN
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- Mr LIMBRICK
- Mr LEANE
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- Mr LEANE
- Ms PATTEN
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- Mr LIMBRICK
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Bills
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Bill 2022
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Committee
- Ms CROZIER
- Mr LEANE
- Ms CROZIER
- Mr LEANE
- Ms PATTEN
- Mr LEANE
- Ms CROZIER
- Mr LEANE
- Ms CROZIER
- Mr LEANE
- Mr HAYES
- Ms MAXWELL
- Mr LIMBRICK
- Mr LEANE
- Mr LIMBRICK
- Mr LEANE
- Ms MAXWELL
- Mr LEANE
- Ms MAXWELL
- Mr LEANE
- Ms PATTEN
- Mr LEANE
- Ms MAXWELL
- Mr LEANE
- Mr LIMBRICK
- Mr LEANE
- Mr LIMBRICK
- Mr LEANE
- Ms MAXWELL
- Mr LEANE
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Suburban Rail Loop
Mr RICH-PHILLIPS (South Eastern Metropolitan) (09:54): For over two years the residents of Heatherton have lived with the spectre of having a train stabling yard built next to their houses as part of the Suburban Rail Loop. It is a site where Labor previously promised the residents a park would be built as part of the chain of parks—
Mr Davis interjected.
Mr RICH-PHILLIPS: but, as Mr Davis says, it is green wedge land. But given Heatherton is part of Clarinda, a safe Labor seat, the Labor government have been happy to walk away from their commitment to a park and instead leave the residents with a train stabling yard. The Liberal candidate for Clarinda, Anthony Richardson, has worked assiduously with the community over the last 18 months to hear their concerns and to find a solution that would address the concerns about this project, which would absolutely destroy their houses, destroy their lifestyle and is completely at odds with what the government had promised.
Yesterday’s announcement by opposition leader Matthew Guy that a Liberal government would not proceed with the Suburban Rail Loop and would instead prioritise those funds into the health system gives the people of Clarinda and the people of Heatherton a lifeline. By electing Anthony Richardson in November and by delivering a change of government, the stabling yard and the threat it poses to those homes will be removed, and the people of Clarinda and the people of Heatherton can have the chain of parks, can have the open space, they were promised by this Labor government and which has subsequently been rejected by this government, by the local member and by the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, who saw a convenient way to fix a problem rather than deliver what she had promised.
The PRESIDENT: Just before I call the next speaker, there is a change in the seating plan. Minister Pulford will be moved back to near Mr Leane, and if she is asked any questions during question time, she will approach the front microphone.