Tuesday, 6 February 2024

Road tolls

Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) presented a petition bearing 559 signatures:

The petition of certain citizens of the State of Victoria draws to the attention of the Legislative Council that the road toll in Victoria is currently 20 per cent higher than at the same point in 2022. Furthermore 2023 is more than 50 deaths above the 5-year average for Victoria.

The former Victorian Parliamentary Road Safety Committee, a bipartisan group whose members represented all sides of politics, did important work and pioneered many successful initiatives that reduced the road toll. It is important that the Victorian Government act in a bipartisan manner to reduce the road toll in Victoria. It is important to start the conversation to reduce the road toll in Victoria and we believe the best opportunity to make our roads safer is for all sides of politics to work together.

The petitioners therefore request that the Legislative Council call on the Government to reinstate the parliamentary Road Safety Committee and to commit the Victorian Parliament to join the federal Parliament and all states in a national conversation to reduce the national road toll.