Thursday, 20 November 2025

 Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (12:47): My constituency question is for the Minister for Planning, and it is to cease with proposed amendments to the Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution Fund. Several councils across my electorate, including Hume City Council, including Mitchell shire, including the City of Whittlesea and the City of Wyndham and others, are very concerned about the government’s planned changes that are about to come before this house, whereby the government will be able to dip into that fund for projects completely unrelated to the council area it is collected from, which provides the revenue for that fund through the growth area infrastructure taxes. We already know that this state government is siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars to prop up the state budget from this GAIC fund, not willing to spend it but collecting it and waiting two years for construction costs to increase by 20 per cent before spending it. Cease with this.