Mason, president of the Eureka Social Riders club, died Sunday after his bike struck a known treacherous defect near Trawalla, spotlighting an Auditor-General’s report that nearly half of Victoria’s roads are in poor condition.
Carroll first said, ‘I’m the Premier, not the Roads Minister,’ prompting comparisons to past missteps, but later pledged doubled pothole repairs, in-house maintenance, and using prisoners for work. But Carroll was the roads minister when he, with Vicroads, allowed heavier vehicles onto roads that have never been designed such freight work.
Amid election tensions, he also announced ‘Jack’s Law’ for warrantless knife searches anywhere, anytime, dividing opinions between safety advocates and critics wary of overreach.
