Thursday, 31 July 2025

 Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:40): (1698) My question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. It is about the deplorable state of our regional and rural roads, in particular two sections: one on the South Gippsland Highway along the Lang Lang, Monomeith and Tooradin section, and the second is the Cann River highway right the way to the border. Both of these sections are dangerous for road users and an indictment of this government. Your claim that Labor is repairing roads at record levels has been exposed by my colleague Danny O’Brien: the state budget revealed major road-patching targets were cut by 93 per cent for regional roads. The performance figures show you are just not improving our roads; you are doing far worse. Will you commit to comprehensive maintenance along both of these roads to improve my constituents’ safety and security of getting home?