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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
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‘PORK BARRELLING AT ITS FINEST’
■ North-Eastern Metropolitan MLC Richard Welch has accused the Allan Labor State Government of “pork barrelling at its finest”. “The obscenely bloated $250 million SRL Community Projects Fund, the $10 million North East Community Fund and the $2.2 million Creative Projects Fund may sound like benevolent initiatives, but they are being used as pork-barrelling at its finest,” Mr Welch said. “These funds are selectively allocated to marginal electorates or politically sensitive areas, exploiting with caveats on silence or disguising political collateral as project information. “This is corrupt practice, and it needs to be called out. These funds are being allocated far outside all the normal protocols of oversight and due process for allocating taxpayer money – and it is exploiting the opaque governance structures of Big Build enterprises to camouflage and hide it.” Mr Welch said it was a misue of taxpayers’ funds.
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■ Parliamentarian Ann-Marie Hermans has pleaded for funding for State Emergency Service volunteer units, such as that at Knox. “The action I seek is for the Minister [for Emergency Services] to heed the calls from the Victorian SES to improve their funding and provide necessary resources to enable them to continue to provide effective emergency responses in critical situations,” Ms Hermans said. “I have had a number of SES units – Chelsea, Narre Warren and Knox – contact my office asking for support in securing sustainable funding for their volunteers, which is sadly lacking in this budget. “VICSES is a volunteer-based organisation committed to providing emergency assistance to minimise the impact of emergencies, reduce trauma to those exposed to emergencies and enhance community resilience across Victoria. “The 4800 volunteers statewide respond to all manner of emergencies, including floods, storms, tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides and road crashes,” Ms Hermans said.
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