Wednesday, 18 February 2026

 Wendy LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (13:04): My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Will the minister invest in maintenance and renewal of unreadable arterial road signs in Northern Victoria? It is not just roads that are falling apart under the Allan Labor government. All across Northern Victoria the directional signs that guide drivers are faded and cracked with lettering that has shrunk or is peeling off. This can actually be very dangerous. For example, there is a fork in the road on the exit lane where the Goulburn Valley Highway joins the Hume Freeway. One side goes to Wodonga and the other side curves around to join the Hume towards Melbourne. But it is hard for unfamiliar drivers to know which side of the fork to take, because the text on the sign is unreadable. Victoria’s road signs desperately need to be renewed, but the Allan Labor government is penny pinching on vital maintenance jobs because it has spent all its money on tunnels in Melbourne and wasted $15 billion on CFMEU construction sites. So will the minister invest – (Time expired)