{"id":420209,"date":"2026-05-04T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=420209"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:12:36","slug":"can-you-trust-maree-edwards-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=420209","title":{"rendered":"Can you trust Maree Edwards MP?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is Bendigo West Labor MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=maree-edwards-mp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Maree Edwards MP\">Maree Edwards<\/a>. She smashed her car into a tradie&#8217;s trailer during a school drop-off, but instead of stopping, she drove off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the victim reported the incident to police, Maree Edwards lied and claimed it wasn&#8217;t her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is also very anti passenger rail working hard to have rail lines closed and pulled in her electorate.  She does not stand for a reduction in environmental damage caused by trucks and cars, she wants half a billion dollars of rail infrastructure torn out for a few cyclists and lack of a business case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has blocked V\/Line from obtaining access to the Castlemaine to Maryborough railway line connecting effectively connecting two large regional centres by passenger rail for a few cyclists on a Sunday morning.  She wants the government to spend millions a rail trail instead of the same amount on a rail line.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"897\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image_2026-05-04_100013243.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-420210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image_2026-05-04_100013243.png 897w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image_2026-05-04_100013243-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image_2026-05-04_100013243-768x627.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maree Edwards MP has been involved in further controversy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now she claims she did not collide with a vehicle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it is proven that she lied to law enforcement, this will demonstrate that she&#8217;s unfit to be the Parliamentary Speaker, &amp; she should resign. How can she hope to fairly adjudicate Members of Parliament if she&#8217;s incapable of owning up to the truth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is incompetent, you cannot trust Maree Edwards MP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the victim reported the incident to police, Maree Edwards lied and claimed it wasn&#8217;t her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":420219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6407],"tags":[20196,8],"class_list":["post-420209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-police-incident","tag-maree-edwards-mp","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420221,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420209\/revisions\/420221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/420219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}