Thursday, 30 October 2025

 Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (23:39): (2080) It would not be a sitting week if I did not talk about Donnybrook Road in my electorate, so my adjournment is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Minister, as you would know, as I have told you several times, Donnybrook Road is a mess. On the Kalkallo and Donnybrook side, it is an old farm track riddled with potholes. Tens of thousands of homes are popping up like pimples on prom night. There is only way out for residents, which is the Hume, which as many would know from about 2:30 in the afternoon is a car park and used as a local road. Residents are at boiling point. There is no solution other than duplicating the bridge over the Hume. We do not know how much the government is contributing to the announcement by the federal government that they will contribute $125 million as part of its $1.2 billion roads blitz, of which the state government is only contributing $200 million – barely anything. We do not know how much the state government is contributing. I seek the action of the minister for that information, with which they have not been forthcoming.

Also, I would like the minister to come out to Donnybrook Road, particularly at peak hour. I would like the minister to come out, at about 7:30 in the morning, to Kalkallo or Donnybrook, and I would like the minister to come out in the afternoon from about school pick-up time on the Hume and on Donnybrook Road, because residents are selling up. There are residents who have told me that they are selling up.

I suggest to the minister that this government has been too focused on a hypothetical Mary and Joe and not focused enough on Preet and Jasleen from Kalkallo. If they were listening to Preet and Jasleen, they would have duplicated Donnybrook Road already, just like when we were in government the Liberals duplicated the Mickleham side of Donnybrook Road, a lovely four-lane road that was signed in agreement through a developer contribution plan, which meant the road was built as residents moved in, not after. The best thing this government can provide for the people of Mickleham is a half-a-billion-dollar mothballed white elephant quarantine facility. Perhaps on the minister’s visit with me she can check that out as well and decide what to do with it. I seek the action of the minister to come out to Donnybrook Road with me and finally commit to duplicating the bridge over the Hume.