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Tim Wilson, Liberal MP for Goldstein, has defended the Morrison government’s controversial commuter car park program that delivered six parks for his Melbourne electorate.
On Monday, the Australian National Audit Office released its report into the program, which found that not one of the 47 commuter car park sites promised by the Coalition at the 2019 election was selected by the infrastructure department, with projects worth $660m handpicked by the government on advice of its MPs and candidates.
They were put forward to me by the council asking to upgrade the car park, encouraging the use of public transport.
I am very, very effective local member in standing up for the community and making sure that we get the resources for our community.
Politely, no. I am very proud to fight for the community and I am very proud to fight for infrastructure for the community and anybody who thinks that was the basis in which I won the electorate, which I won at the previous election and has been won continuously by the Liberal Party since federation, probably doesn’t understand the nature of the community and its issues
I am absolutely proud to say that I fight very hard for the community inside the government to get infrastructure funding, to make sure that we have the resources that we need locally to support residents.”
The inquest into the death in custody of Aboriginal man Raymond Noel Lindsay Thomas is still underway in Melbourne. The 30-year-old died in a police pursuit on a residential Melbourne street in 2017.
The crash occurred just 21 seconds after police formally called in the pursuit, but the inquest has previously heard that the police car got up to speeds of 134km/h before calling the pursuit, when it was following Thomas’s car because it was unregistered and looked “dodgy”.
