Thursday, 19 June 2025

Bus route 476

Moira DEEMING (Western Metropolitan) (17:58): (1747) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Public and Active Transport.

Members interjecting.

Moira DEEMING: Just so you know, senior Liberals were actually begging me to come up with a peace plan. First they tried threatening me and things like that. But just so you know, I have never, ever committed blackmail. That is just a lie. I was begged to clean up the mess made by Pesutto and his mates when they called me a Nazi sympathiser. Everyone was happy with the deal that I came up with. Yes, I handed over the five-point plan and yes, it included my preselection, but I never blackmailed anybody. Pesutto came back to Battin and said, ‘Sure, Moira can have all of that, including her preselection, but only if she pays $1 million of my debt.’ So you can stop with that kind of a lie.

Members interjecting.

Moira DEEMING: Perhaps some people really need to get a hobby. I hear there is a former-Premier-sized vacancy in golf. But anyway, back to my adjournment matter. Constituents are fed up with route 476 from Watergardens to Moonee Ponds. So what should be a straightforward journey has become a slow-moving ordeal – and yes, there are parallels. Sometimes it takes over an hour because the route is clogged with so many stops. It is actually ridiculous – you should look at it on the map. People trying to get to work and school and appointments are being made late day after day. It is not a transport network at all. So the action that I seek is that the minister conduct a serious review about the stops configuration so that they can deliver a faster and more efficient service for the west.