VAGO report on EWL

Shadow Treasurer, Michael O’Brien

Before the election Daniel Andrews promised Victorians there would be no compensation payable by tearing up the East West Link contract.
The Auditor-General now estimates the total cost of Daniel Andrews’ decision to tear up the East West Link contract is $1.1 billion.
Does anyone believe that if Daniel Andrews went to the last election promising to tear up the East West Link contract at a cost of $1.1 billion, that he would have won the election?
If Daniel Andrews told Victorians before the election that he would tear up the East West Link contract at a cost of $1.1 billion, he would not be Premier today.
Victorians were lied to by Daniel Andrews.
The cost of Daniel Andrews’ $1.1 billion lie could have built a brand new Royal Children’s Hospital or 91 brand new primary schools or around 80 brand new 24-hour police stations.
Having wasted $1.1 billion to not build a road, Daniel Andrews is now asking the Turnbull Government to give him another $1 billion to build the Western Distributor – a project Labor did not take to the election – and which remains unfunded.
Before the election on the Neil Mitchell program, Daniel Andrews said: “There’ll be no compensation paid, because these arrangements are not valid, they’re not worth the paper they are written on.”
Daniel Andrews lied.
Media contact:      Tony Barry   0419 600 879         tony.barry@opposition.vic.gov.au