Tuesday, 6 February 2024

Eastern Victoria Region

Renee HEATH (Eastern Victoria) (13:05): (629) My question is for the Minister for Emergency Services, and the question is: what action is the state government taking to ensure the implementation of Life Saving Victoria’s recommendations from their 2019 report? Families along the Bass Coast are currently mourning in the wake of recent tragic drownings, and many are asking what can be done to prevent them continuing. In 2017 the Bass Coast was identified as a drowning black spot. Life Saving Victoria handed down a federal government funded Bass Coast shire coastal risk assessment outlining evidence-based recommendations for addressing local drowning risk. Local activist Graham Jolly is campaigning for an inquiry to find what could have been done to prevent the six drownings along the Bass Coast earlier this year. So, Minister, please, when will the recommendations from this report be released?