Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:26): (1369) My question is to the Minister for Environment. A June 2026 Auditor-General’s report found that your department has failed to demonstrate that bushfire fuel management is working, that key data is unreliable and that longstanding recommendations remain unimplemented. Given these findings, after six years of warnings will you now admit the government’s fuel management program is failing to reduce bushfire risk for Victorians?
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:30): I am not sure that the minister actually read the Auditor-General’s report, because he might have been reading his own fantasy. The Auditor-General also found that your department overstated progress and failed to complete critical recommendations. So I ask: Minister, will you commit to publishing independently verified bushfire risk and fuel management data before the next fire season?