Friday, 14 November 2025

 Wendy LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (12:40): My question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. Will the minister commit to funding the Beveridge train station in the 2026–27 state budget? This week Infrastructure Victoria tabled their 30-year strategy in Parliament, and recommendation 12 repeated my call to build a new train station in Beveridge as a matter of urgency. In October last year Labor announced that land around Beveridge will be one of the three priority greenfield sites where land will be released for new housing. The population of Beveridge is expected to explode, reaching 75,000 by 2041, but the town still does not have a train station, which places enormous pressure on Donnybrook station, where there is already a severe lack of parking. The Allan Labor government has completely neglected the northern growth suburbs, where Labor’s planning failures have turned the Australian dream into a traffic nightmare. The minister must respect the independent advice from Infrastructure Victoria and fund the Beveridge train station in the 2026–27 state budget.