Police Can Use Average Speed Camera Pairs in Vic; Emergency Service Vehicles Exempt from Heavy Vehicle Fatigue Rules When Responding to Emergencies; New Port Information-Gathering Powers
Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026
Legislative Assembly
Legislative Council
Assent
Topics
emergency services heavy vehicle fatigue port operations road safety speed cameras toll roads transport
Introduced by: The Hon Melissa Horne MP (ALP); The Hon Lizzie Blandthorn MLC (ALP)
Links to official parliament websites
Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
The Debate
What different members said when this bill was debated:
“I am pleased to rise to speak on the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation AmendmentBill 2026.”
Roma Britnell LIB
“I rise to speak on the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026. This is a bill that, whilst largelypresented as administrative, reveals agreatdealabouttheAllan Labor government’s approach to roads andregulation and frankly its priority, or lack thereof, for roads.”
Danny Pearson ALP
“I am delighted to make a contribution on this omnibus bill,butcallingitanomnibus billIdonotthinkdoesjusticetothequalityof thestatutebooks thatwill ultimately house this magnificent piece of legislation, because at the core of this bill is that glorious and most noble of principles, kaizen, which is a Japanese word for ‘continuous and constant improvement’.”
Nina Taylor ALP
“I am very pleased to speak on the Roads, Road Safety and PortsLegislationAmendmentBill2026.Thebilldeliversabroadpackageofreformstoimproveroad safety outcomes, strengthen the management of our transport network and support the efficient movement of freight across Victoria.”
John Pesutto LIB
“I rise to speak on the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026, and I do so on a day when, although we will not be opposing this bill, there is a long shadow over what the government has not said and not committed to today. We welcome and will not oppose any efforts that improve road safety measures, including point-to-point speed camera enforcement.”
Paul Mercurio ALP
“I am very happy to stand and speak to the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026. I am happy to be speaking after the member for Hawthorn. I am sorry to hear about his daughter – I think that is a shame; it does happen – but pretty much everythingelsehesaid I disagreewith.”
Matthew Guy LIB
“The coalition does not oppose this bill, the Roads, Road Safety andPortsLegislationAmendmentBill2026,andweobviouslyaremakingsomecommentsinrelation to it. I want to focus on part 6, which talks specifically about the implementation of the Victorian freight plan, because I think the Victorian freight plan is an important document.”
Kat Theophanous ALP
“I am proud to speak on this bill, the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026. It is a practical bill. It deals with speed enforcement, road declarations, toll road administration, heavy vehicle law, port data, freight movement and operator onus offences.”
Richard Riordan LIB
“I too rise to talk about the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026, and I amjust having a little chuckle to myself as I look at this bill today.”
Meng Heang Tak ALP
“I am delighted to join this side of the house and the hardworkingmemberforMelton,whospokejustbeforeme,insupportoftheRoads,RoadSafetyand Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026. This is another important bill, one that will improve road safety outcomes and the management of Victoria’s roads.”
Chris Crewther LIB
“I rise to speak on the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026. This is an omnibus bill dealing with a range of matters across the roads, road safety, freight and ports portfolios. Broadly the bill makes a number of technical and practical amendments to existing transport legislation.”
Sarah Connolly ALP
“I would welcome an audience for a little committee called the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee. They are about to undergo budget estimates, and there will be lots of conversations about roads and road safety and potholes.”
John Lister ALP
“It is my pleasure to rise to speak on the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026. Road safety is something particularly important for me and residents in my electorate, which I will come to more broadly. But I think it is personally very important for me too.”
Martin Cameron NAT
“I rise to contribute on the Roads, Road Safety and Ports LegislationAmendmentBill 2026, and in doingso Inotethatwearenotopposingthisbill,and thatis the way it should be with anything that we can do to make sure our roads are safer notonlyfor us but forourfamiliesandeverysinglepersoninVictoria.”
Alison Marchant ALP
“Eggs are fine on the Bellarine. They are great on the Bellarine, and we get our eggs around the Bellarine. It is really lovely to speak on the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026. Roads are something that I have spoken about many times in this place, because they are a really important issue for my constituents and for me personally.”
Iwan Walters ALP
“I also rise to contribute on the Roads, Road Safety and Ports Legislation Amendment Bill 2026, and I want to thank the ministers for roads and road safety past and present and the Minister for Ports and Freight for bringing this bill to this place.”