A STATEMENT BY GREG HUNT

I am both honoured and delighted to have been appointed Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Urban Water.

This new role brings together the great interests of my time in Parliament. Climate change and water security present two of the greatest challenges currently facing this nation and are subjects on which I have spent much time and energy over many years.

I believe climate change has presented the international community with an unprecedented opportunity to work together towards a common goal. Rising to meet this global challenge will continue to require vision, inspired leadership, commitment and trust.

For Australia, much of which has been in the grip of a crippling drought for several years now, securing our water supply is absolutely fundamental to our continued growth and prosperity. Without an adequate and dependable water supply our society will cease to be fully functional.

I believe it is possible to not only meet these two important challenges but, in the process, continue to grow and prosper as a society. I will do all that I can to provide the leadership and vision needed to accomplish this.

I am also delighted to have broader responsibility for the Environment and to be working with my outstanding colleague, the Hon Dr Sharman Stone.

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First elected on 10 November 2001, I sought to represent Flinders because I am passionate about helping the community in which I grew up.

Over the last few years we have achieved a lot for the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port and Bass Coast/Phillip Island communities including better roads, reading and writing programs for our kids, aged care and health services and protection of our local environment and heritage.

Together we have built a healthier and stronger community but I want to do more.

PETITIONS

		Protect the coastline - especially cleaning up Gunnamatta Beach, so that our children can play on the same beaches we grew up enjoying;
		Completing the process of establishing Point Nepean as one of the great public parks and marine and climate education centres in Australia
		Securing full Exceptional Circumstances drought assistance for South and West Gippsland, Western Port and the Peninsula
		Establishing a Medicare Office in Rosebud
		Establishing a Medicare agency co-located with Centrelink at Hastings
		Completing the Rural Transaction Centres in Grantville and Lang Lang
		Securing funding from the State Government to upgrade the Baxter Tavern intersection
		Convincing the State Government to install traffic lights on the dangerous Truemans Road and Nepean Highway intersection in Rosebud
		Securing a new doctor for Pearcedale;
		Co-author of the National School Chaplaincy Initiative, which has delivered support to local schools
		Ensuring funding for upgrades of the dangerous Hastings Dandenong and Frankston Flinders Road intersection, Hastings
		Helping rejuvenate Western Port’s coastline and mangrove areas, especially in the Coastal Villages area
		Fighting for natural gas for Balnarring and Somers
		Delivering on approval for a pharmacy for Tooradin and the Coastal Villages
		Securing funding for more aged care places for Koo Wee Rup, Baxter and Catani;
		Upgrading the Baxter-Tooradin Road and South Gippsland Hwy Intersection, Tooradin
		Upgrading Jetty Road, Rosebud, & Melbourne Road, Rye to Sorrento, and Red Hill Road
		Working for improved sporting facilities such as the establishment of a skate park at Rosebud
		Securing funding for an upgrade to the Bentons Road intersections with both Moorooduc Highway and Nepean Highway in Mt Martha
		Helping to bring more doctors to the Peninsula
		Ensuring completion of a Flinders Pharmacy outlet
		Helping to provide better access to GPs for Corinella, Coronet Bay, San Remo and Phillip Island
		Securing more child care places for Koo Wee Rup, Baxter, Bayles and Catani

	§	Close the Gunnamatta ocean outfall
	§	Keep bitumen trucks off the streets of Crib Point & Hastings
	§	Deliver an Aquatic Centre for Rosebud
	§	Deliver an Aquatic Centre for Phillip Island
	§	Secure reticulated natural gas for Bass Coast and Phillip Island
	§	Establish Years 11 and 12 at Somerville Secondary College
	§	Ensure the State Government builds 24-hour Police Stations for Somerville and Phillip Island
	§	Protect Lang Lang jetty
	§	Encourage further development of the facilities at Bass Coast Health Centre in San Remo
	§	Secure reticulated natural gas for Blind Bight, Cannons Creek, Warneet and Tooradin
	§	Protect the future of Warley Hospital, Phillip Island
	§	Support the Peninsula’s major Water Recycling project, Nepean-Mornington Peninsula Sustainable Water Initiative
	§	Protect Dromana & Sorrento Police Stations
	§	Convince the State Government to include the Peninsula in the MET Zone for public transport
	§	Support local groups to find local answers to the young people with a disability in residential aged care on the Mornington Peninsula and in Hastings
	§	Add to the record number of aged care places on the Peninsula
	§	Stop the freight train through Pearcedale, Devon Meadows, Clyde and Cardinia
	§	Ensure the Oberon Submarine tourist attraction is built to boost jobs and revitalise the Hastings foreshore
	§	Helping build a shared community facility in Red Hill
	§	Help to protect Mt Martha Beach
	§	Upgrade Clyde Road, Clyde
	§	Ensure the State Government includes and protects all of the Devilbend reservoir land as part of the State Park
	§	Assist the Casey Kids Club find funding to ensure that there program can continue into the future
	§	Secure a Koo Wee Rup truck bypass to make our streets safer

Together we can build a local environment that provides more opportunities for the people of Flinders.
Listening to you is my number one priority so I would love to hear from you.

Please feel free to visit the Contact Greg section of this site to let me know what issues are important to you and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

I hope you find lots of useful information on who I am, what I stand for and what I believe in.

Greg Hunt MP