My constituency question is to the Minister for Mental Health. The residents of Murrindindi Shire, in my electorate, had received two exemptions from the Minister up to 30 June 2019 in relation to the provision of publicly-funded mental health services.
My question is to the Minister for Road Safety and the TAC, Minister Pulford. It follows another spate of accidents on the Black Spur Road in Murrindindi and the decision last week that VicRoads meet to ‘investigate potential safety improvements’ there.
My constituency question is to the Minister for Corrections. It follows queries to me from a number of constituents in Northern Victoria about the Catalyst Consortium.
Why is a city and surrounding region whose residents are around nine times more likely to die of cancer than the national average, who are geographically isolated and further away from Melbourne than the people of any other major population centre in Victoria and who therefore spend well over $1 million annually travelling for cancer treatment not a quintessential example of an area that should be included in these teletrials?
Sadly, I refer the minister to the example of the Chilcott family in Wangaratta. Two people died in their house and four children became orphaned in early 2017 while they were trying to help stop a horrific act of neighbourhood family violence. They face ongoing trauma as they continue to wait for years for any information from the coronial inquest.
My constituency question is to the Minister for Public Transport. After years of problems with rail services to the Northern Victorian region, we have now learnt again that only 69% of V Line train services on the North East Line arrived on time in January; and only 88% of train services were even delivered at all, with 22 trains cancelled completely. I wish to ask the Minister for the latest update on progress on the North East Line Upgrade?
