PREMIER DANIEL ANDREWS ON …

Need for more Barwon Health staff:

“(At) Barwon Health, every health service, staff are very tired. It is incredibly important we give them a rest as soon as we can.”

Progression of Geelong convention centre:

“Deakin is … very, very professional in the way that they engage. They want to get the best value for their future.” Torquay / Jan Juc development (Spring Creek):

“My position remains very clear. We were clear about where the town boundary would be (Duffields Rd) at the last election and our position hasn’t changed.”

Drug court in Geelong:

“We are in constant discussion with the experts … if it would make Geelong safer, we will look at that very closely. We are always looking to expand the drug court wherever we need to and that’s why it’s grown in so many different areas.”

Six-month wait for the men’s behaviour change program (family violence treatment initiative):

“This is a symptom of more reporting and more clients needing this sort of behaviour change. Keeping pace with that isn’t easy.”

Public sector job losses:

“We’re working through individual plans with individual departments and agencies to try and be as efficient as we can be. A lot of this is through natural attrition. I wouldn’t see that Geelong would be significantly impacted by that. That wouldn’t be my aim.”

Mandatory return to work for public servants:

“What we know from the last time we opened up … the average was three days a week. So we’re confident that there won’t be a need to mandate that.”

Re-design of the Geelong mall “I’m not here to tell Geelong what the mall should look like.

I’d be very keen to have a situation where there was as much feedback, as much input, as possible and then get on and transform the space as we have so many other spaces in Geelong.”