Thursday, 4 December 2025

 Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:47): (2063) My constituency question is for the Minister for Environment. It relates to something that I have been working on for a long time with the constituents down on the Bass Coast, and that is the Bass Coast cape-to-cape resilience project. It is overdue despite being launched in 2019. Labor declared coastal works were, and I quote, ‘a priority’ in information that I received recently. They said it was a priority back in 2022, and there was $3.3 million to spend on mitigation works. Meanwhile erosion is continuing to be such a significant issue both at Inverloch and at Silverleaves and in that coastal community. In the review that you also did a little while ago, Minister, the consultation said that there were community concerns, but they blamed negative feedback on the storm event and indeed a community petition that was tabled here by me only recently on behalf of the committee. Minister, on behalf of the Bass Coast residents, will you immediately release the final cape-to-cape resilience plan as soon as possible – before Christmas?