Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Northern Metropolitan Region

Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (14:13): (925) My constituency question is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and it concerns infrastructure in Wallan. Locals were pretty shocked to hear the news recently that Labor has announced new compulsory housing targets which will force the town of Wallan to grow by 300 per cent – almost five times as much growth as the Premier has decided to put in her own electorate. So after already abandoning the ‘80,000 homes in each and every year’ promise, they are now keen to grow my community by 300 per cent. Wallan lacks much of the infrastructure communities take for granted. It does not even have a public pool. It still does not have a diamond interchange. Its potholes are in crisis. So I ask the minister: does the government see an opportunity to provide Wallan with the infrastructure it needs before huge numbers of people move, or will the government continue to take Wallan for granted?