Questions without notice and ministers statements
Danny O’BRIEN (Gippsland South) (14:40): My question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. The Department of Transport and Planning annual report today reveals that last financial year major patching works on regional roads fell 45 per cent short of target, and in outer-metro areas the target was missed by a whopping 73 per cent. Why has the Labor government given up on fixing our roads?
The government claims its road maintenance budget for last year was $964 million, and the minister has just repeated that claim. Yet the annual report today shows the total spending on road asset management was just $692 million. Why is the government cutting budgets and slashing road maintenance works when the state of our roads has never been worse?