Thursday, 13 November 2025

 Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (09:56): Regional Victorians are sick and tired of being told to slow down rather than the Allan government actually maintaining and fixing our broken roads. Over the past five years there has been a 45 per cent reduction in road maintenance. This underinvestment means that the government, rather than having people travel at capacity on roads at a normal speed, are slowing people down to 60, 70 and 80 kilometres an hour. This not only impacts productivity, but it means more of our family spending more time on dangerous roads, rather than this government fixing them. I call on the minister to finally actually focus on the regions, focus outside the tram tracks, and fix our regional roads.