Thursday, 18 June 2026

 Renee HEATH (Eastern Victoria) (14:11): (2424) My question today is for the Minister for Police, because crime at stations in the area of Cardinia has risen by 41 per cent. Unfortunately, this is no surprise. My soon-to-be colleague Matt Green and myself have been down at train stations every week for a month listening to commuters at Officer and at Cardinia Road, and they have all told their stories about witnessing crime, being victims of crime or feeling unsafe. We have heard the stories of crime and fear and all of these things happening, so I still do not understand why the Labor government decided to remove PSOs from these stations during this time. A coalition government will return every single PSO to the 119 stations where Labor has taken them off. My question for the minister is: will you do the same? We cannot wait until the next election. While I am on this, just really quickly –

The ACTING PRESIDENT (Gaelle Broad): Sorry, Dr Heath. The time has expired. There is just one more question, because there has been a bit of an error today with quite a few.