A pinch of salt
Dear Editor,
It was interesting to read the Council’s shopping list on the front page of the Review 28/10/2025. Plenty of discussion about the topics listed, except for one – yes, the Kilmore Bypass. All of these items have been in the pipeline during the eight year push for a bypass of Kilmore and Wallan. Council has been aware of all the future development during that period of the Bypass group and the 2014 announcement by the State Labor Government to build a bypass of Kilmore.
Councillor Riley Evans is urging people to contact their State and federal MPs and implore them to provide better infrastructure. However, those people have been doing that since 2006 and have been getting nowhere with the State and Federal Labor Party MPs. All they have been getting are a load of pre-election promises, which they go back on after the election, as you well know.
I cannot see how this Council shopping list will come to fruition, given the size of the State Government debt and the backdoor Treaty conjured up by the Allan Government, despite Victoria saying NO to the Voice. How can the Federal Government fund this shopping list when they are giving $600 million to PNG for a rugby team and paying out billions in subsidies for wind farms and solar panels? On top of that is the suggestion of another 32 MPs to the Federal Government. Imagine the size of the Government and Public Service, yet again at taxpayers’ expense. As for the Prime Minister, I think he must be on a visitor’s visa, given he is hardly in the country long enough to make a decision.
I suggest that we take this shopping list with a pinch of salt because we are looking at bleak years ahead under the current Victorian and Federal Governments.
Brian Mawhinney
Traralgon