Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister called the Victorian election 'a referendum on the East West Link', and it was. The people of Victoria voted overwhelmingly for investment in public transport, not a massive, polluting tollway.

This motion was asking the government to listen to the views of Victorians and to reallocate the $3 billion currently committed to the East West Link into public transport infrastructure projects—projects that have a greater economic benefit to Victoria than the east-west tollway, projects that have been assessed by Infrastructure Australia and projects that will begin to address the lack of investment in public transport that Victoria has endured over the last 50 years.