'Is this more satire?': The two decisions from the Labor government that Jacqui Felgate has called out

We're almost in caretaker mode. The election is now, can you believe it, less than two months away. And Ben Carroll is trying to save his government. He is throwing everything in but the kitchen sink. In fact, the kitchen sink is probably included as well. And I honestly laughed today when we got a media release and the title is Labor is Cleaning Up the Monash Freeway. And I thought, "Is this more satire?" So today, less than eight weeks out from the poll, this government has finally realized that the place is a tip. So they're saying they're going to clean up 15 ramps on the Monash, and these ramps are from Narre Warren to Malvern. So they're gonna clean the graffiti. They're going to repair the signs, you know the ones that are like tipped over or covered, you can't even read where you're going. Sweeping up, weed removal, and roadside maintenance. So how amazing. After a decade of decay, the government has found $36 million to get rid of graffiti on the side of our freeways. And what a surprise that they're starting with the Monash, which is home to a number of marginal seats that Labor must hold. Well, they can add every side to every other road in the state to that list as well. But I make the point, marginal seats out Narre Warren way, so you can bet your bottom dollar they'll start there. And as part of that pork barreling media release, it says, "This is on top," this is the 36 million to clean up the graffiti and the tip on the side of the road. So they say, "On top of la- on top of that, Labor has a pothole blitz, doubling the potholes repaired from 250,000 to half a million," which according to the media release put out by the Premier's department, is double, quote, "double what the Liberals have said they will do." I am sorry. Perhaps I woke up after my holiday, and my brain fell out, and I forgot that Labor has been in power for more than a decade. It is this government's fault that we have a pothole crisis, which was caused because this current Andrews-Allen Carroll government cut road maintenance funding for not just successive years, but close to a decade. That is the only reason why the roads are in such disrepair. And on that topic, I'll be speaking to MotoGP legend Wayne Gardner later in the program. And given the rain on Saturday, have you noticed that every pothole where they'd thrown some cement in it is now worse than it ever was? My area in particular is out of control. I could stick my nine-year-old kid in one of these potholes, and she would be half missing. So has this happened in your area since we've had the rain on Saturday? Have all of the temporary repairs that the government has done, are they now just back to being the same potholes, if not worse? So 133693, drive@3aw.com.au, or you can text us, 0477693693. And by all means, we all welcome the repair of every pothole. But on this, on this, you can't blame the Liberals or the Nationals or any independent or the Greens. We are not stupid. People know. They know why the roads are in such disrepair. And it is because many years ago, the government looked at the cash windfall if they didn't do maintenance that people can't see and made the cuts there, and now