First, Luke Donnellan denigrated and disrespected country Victorians. Now he is straight out lying to us.
Asked today in Parliament if Labor’s botched placement of wire rope barriers would result in workers mowing kilometres of the Hume Fwy grass verge with push mowers, the Roads Minister responded ‘no’.
But photographs of workers mowing the edges of the Hume Fwy with push mowers suggest otherwise.
Luke Donnellan’s own guidelines on wire rope barriers state that the ongoing maintenance of areas on both sides of the barrier should be taken into account when installing them.
Further they state “the cost, practicality and Occupational Health & Safety implications of the maintenance of these areas need to be considered in accordance with Section 28 of the OH&S Act 2004.”
The use of push mowers on the Hume Fwy clearly does not comply with the Minister’s own guidelines.
Luke Donnellan must explain why the botched rollout of wire rope barriers has breached his own guidelines.
Daniel Andrews and Luke Donnellan must start listening to the legitimate safety concerns of country people.