Thursday, 10 September 2026

 Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (09:53): The Nationals are ready to deliver a strong and stable government with a positive plan to rebuild Victoria. We will fix our roads with a $5 billion invested target in the state’s road network, and we will bring back the country roads and bridges program to fix our bridges and our local roads. We will tackle crime with more police, tougher laws and stronger consequences for repeat offenders. We will rebuild regional health care by attracting and incentivising more doctors, nurses and allied health professionals and rebuild our hospitals as needed. We will also rebuild homes and make sure that we are cutting red tape, unlocking land for families and ensuring first home buyers get a fair go. We will ease cost-of-living pressures by scrapping Labor’s divisive emergency services tax and deliver more reliable and dispatchable energy. Through our fair share guarantee we will ensure that regional Victorians finally get their fair share of infrastructure investment, better roads, safer communities, stronger health care and more housing at lower costs. That is what country people deserve, and that is what they will get on 28 November this year.