Thursday, 2 May 2024

Western Victoria Region

Joe McCRACKEN (Western Victoria) (12:53): (837) My question is to the Minister for Public and Active Transport, and it is a very simple question: when will the upgrades to the Ballarat train station – $50 million – be completed? Works have not even started yet. I went to the train station on Monday this week to inspect them to see if anything had happened. Nothing has happened at all. We were really glad to see in the local media last year that the member for Wendouree apologised due to the lack of upgrades to disability groups, because it is disabled users that are being short-changed. If you go to the station, you cannot actually get over to the other platform because there is no lift access at all. Those with any sort of movement disability would find it very difficult, unless they want to traverse the train track themselves. So, Minister, when will it actually begin?