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Flag raising for NAIDOC Week PLASTERER ■ A flag-raising ceremony for NAIDOC Week will be held at 9.30am for a 10am start on Sunday, July 7 at the Aboriginal Advancement League at 2 Watt St, Thornbury. The annual NAIDOC March will be taking place at 10am on Friday, July 12, at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Services on Nicholson St in Fitzroy.
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■ Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish told State Parliament last week that construction on Yan Yean Rd appeared to be “mothballed”. “Yan Yean Rd, promised at the 2018 and 2022 elections, carries 20,000 cars a day or more than that. The former Premier and the former member for Yan Yean would make a lot of noise about this,” Ms McLeish said. “There are traffic jams on this road daily, routinely stretching two to five kilometres – cars making their way to and from the M80 and the city. “But since 2018 all contracts have lapsed, the project seems to be mothballed and contractors have been stood down. “This is despite the current member for Yan Yean [Lauren Kathage] telling locals that this is going to be addressed. They have been let down again. “We have got the Wallan interchange, which has been around for quite a long time. People in that area have been let down again. We have got the seats of Kalkallo and Yan Yean either side of Wallan. “We need ramps onto the Hume Highway. It is a $130 million project. The $50 million pledged by the Federal Government is not going to go anywhere, because the state Labor government have not put in. They are broke. They cannot put in the $80 million that is needed,” Ms McLeish said.
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