Thursday, 30 October 2025

 Bev McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:59): (1935) My question is to Minister Symes. Yesterday I met with Northern Grampians shire, a shire in my electorate, and they presented me with a letter that had come from the Premier’s office directed to Minister Symes requesting an answer to their questions relating to the emergency services tax. They have not been responded to, and ‘they’ would be the mayor of Northern Grampians, mayor of Pyrenees shire, mayor of Yarriambiack, mayor of Horsham, mayor of West Wimmera, mayor of Buloke and mayors of Hindmarsh, Moyne and Colac Otway. I ask the minister to please respond with why she has not responded to the nine mayors who want their questions answered.