Hansard debates

Anthony MARSH (Nepean) (14:43): (1706) My question is to the Minister for Ports and Freight. During the Nepean by-election I committed to ensuring the heritage-listed Flinders Pier would be fully restored, but under this government contractors have been instructed to cease works and pull up stumps because the project has nearly exhausted its funds and must be rescoped. This is despite the pier’s condition having been documented before and tendered and the government promising work to include new poles, beams, crossbeams, capping beams and decking. Flinders Pier is a heritage icon, and my local community is rightly calling for funding to complete the much-needed full restoration. Minister, has Labor’s financial mismanagement left the government so broke that it cannot complete the project required and the restoration of this irreplaceable community asset?