My question is on behalf of a constituent. On 16 November the Minister for Water announced the continuation of the ferry service from Portarlington to Docklands. Further, this year’s budget revealed that the government was evaluating a market-led proposal which may result in the government providing funding of $5 million over three years to facilitate a trial. While potential forward expenditure is identified in the budget, expenditure in the 2016–17 year and earlier years is

I raise a matter this evening for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and the action I seek is that the minister act to correct the absence of appropriate exit signage for Mount Eliza and Mount Martha from Peninsula Link. Earlier this year I wrote to the minister and requested his assistance in resolving these signage issues, and in the correspondence I noted a number of matters that I will summarise for the house.

On another matter, on the night of 21 May 1892, 15 players from the Mornington Football Club were drowned on their way home from a football match at Mordialloc when their boat “Process” was wrecked at Pelican Point near Mount Eliza. Only four bodies were recovered. The 125th anniversary of this disaster that rocked the small town was observed on Sunday. The story of those 15 young men has been told by author Paul Kennedy

My question is for the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, and I raise the ongoing issues we have had with Mount Martha North beach. They have been ongoing over a number of governments. In late 2010, I think it was, some 10,000 cubic metres of sand was transported to deal with the sand erosion issue, but it continues to be a problem. In what appears to be an effort to divert attention from