Thursday, 15 August 2019

 Mr DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan—Leader of the Opposition) (13:02): I will be very quick. My constituency question today is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and it concerns the commitment of the Andrews Labor government to the $56 million high-capacity signalling trial on the Sandringham line. Now, that has been cancelled by the government. Four years ago the Sandringham line was chosen as the trial for this modern signalling, and there was a lot of fanfare and trumpeting by the government at the time. But it has abandoned the Sandringham line, and the state budget papers make it clear that the government has sneakily abandoned this project and poured the money into the Metro Tunnel, which as we know is already significantly behind time and over budget. So my question to the minister is: does the minister have any plans to restore the high-capacity signalling torn from the Sandringham line? And I say this because this is an important future-leading step and the government has taken the money and put it into the Metro project.

Sitting suspended 1.00 pm until 2.07 pm.