Tuesday, 29 July 2025

 Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (14:38): (1681) My question today is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and it relates to the recent chemical leak from the North East Link Program. The chemicals that spilled from this disastrous toll road project turned our local waterway, the Banyule Creek, a distressing neon blue. The local community are rightly frustrated, to put it mildly, that this project has further damaged the local environment. They have already had to endure the dust, the loss of nature and the damage to wetlands and bushland, let alone the noise and the traffic and the disruption. Minister, the community need to know exactly what this chemical was and the impact it has had on the creek and surrounding area, and they need to be assured that this will not happen again. Will you publicly report this information so the people of my electorate can fully understand what the chemical was and what impact the spill has had on their local community and can have any trust that it will not happen again?