Thursday, 18 June 2026

 Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) (14:09): (2423) My question today is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. My constituents ask: when will the deep and dangerous potholes on the Murray Valley Highway at Kotupna be fixed properly? The Murray Valley Highway is a disgrace. Time after time the surface is repaired to a subpar standard, and I find myself here asking for the same stretches of road to be repaired. Today is no different. In August of last year I asked on my constituents’ behalf for the badly potholed and damaged section of the road on the bends at Kotupna to be fixed. On 2 September last year the minister assured me that the Department of Transport and Planning was anticipating rectification works to be completed in the coming weeks. It is now June, and the bends on the Murray Valley Highway at Kotupna are in as bad a condition as, if not worse than, they were last year. My constituents pay their taxes and their registration just like everyone else, and they deserve their roads to be repaired in a timely manner and to a high standard. Minister, my constituents ask: when will the deep and dangerous potholes on the Murray Valley Highway at Kotupna be properly fixed?