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ROAD SAFETY TASK MADE MORE DIFFICULT UNDER LABOR
The latest monthly statistical report of the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics shows a deadly December on Australian roads.
113 people lost their lives in December, 6.8 per cent higher than the average for December over the previous five years.
The 2024 calendar year saw a total of 1,300 lives lost on Australian roads, a 3.3 per cent increase on 2023. Roads in the Limestone Coast witnessed a devastating 28 per cent increase in fatalities in the same period.
Australia’s road toll continues to track in the wrong direction, with the annual fatality rate per 100,000 head of population now sitting at 4.8, well over double the National Road Safety target of 2.0.
Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, and Member for Barker Tony Pasin MP said the continual rise in road fatalities reiterates the need for national leadership on the road safety crisis facing the nation.
“The data tells a tragic story unfolding on our roads. Monthly figures continue to tell us that we are well off track to achieving National Road Safety Strategy targets,” Mr Pasin said.
“We need better insight into what’s happening on our roads and why to ensure that road safety initiatives and infrastructure funding is being directed where it is needed to address the road safety crisis that has been unfolding on Australian roads,” Mr Pasin said.
Unfortunately, the road safety task is being made more difficult by the Albanese Government’s decision to cancel, cut, and delay more than $27.9 billion in infrastructure funding over its first two years in government.
Mr Pasin said that roads throughout the Barker aren’t receiving the maintenance and upgrades they need, and the impacts of Federal Government funding cuts are being felt by road users firsthand.
“Road users in Barker have been raising serious concerns about the local road network with reports of serious damage to vehicles and near misses as a result of potholes and crumbling edges.
“The Albanese Labor Government simply haven’t made the infrastructure investment necessary to see roads upgraded to improve road safety,” Mr Pasin said.
Mr Pasin has been running a petition calling on the State and Federal Labor Government’s to invest properly in Southern Ports Highway.
“The announcement of $18 million for a 30km section of the Southern Ports Highway last year is nowhere near enough. It represents another half measure which will do nothing more than add another patch on an already patchworked pavement,” Mr Pasin said.
The petition calling on Government to Fix the Southern Ports Highway properly can be signed online at www.tonypasin.com/fixourroads_southern_ports_highway
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