[Greens-Media] Greens uncover westlink phone research push-polling

[Elizabeth.Ingham at parliament.vic.gov.au]

Greens MLC Colleen Hartland tabled a community petition against Westlink 
in parliament today after uncovering government documents that indicate a 
flawed basis for government claims that the public supports Westlink.

"There were 135 signatures on the petition from community members that I 
tabled in parliament today."

"This week I uncovered the questions asked in a government survey that was 
clearly designed to get a positive answer so that the government could 
pretend the public supports this expensive, damaging lemon of a project." 
*

"I asked for the telephone survey script to be tabled in parliament 
because it was so suspicious that it was missing from the public 
consultation reports."

"The script includes a great bit of push-polling at taxpayer expense about 
government projects that have nothing to do with Westlink."

"The whole survey is set up to get a false show of support for Westlink, 
by avoiding any mention of the alternatives."

"The survey basically takes people by the hand, asks them how much they 
get stuck in traffic, tells them Westlink is the answer then asks them how 
much they want it."

"They didn't ask whether people would prefer the five billion dollar cost 
of westlink to be spent on public transport infrastructure."

"There's nothing about the extra pollution and trucks, the noise and the 
damage to homes that Westlink would cause."

For comment: Colleen Hartland  9689 6373

* The telephone script is published on Colleen's website at: 
http://mps.vic.greens.org.au/system/files/101007+government+westlink+telephone+push-polling+questions.pdf

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Liz Ingham
Office of Colleen Hartland MLC
Western Metropolitan Region

A: 75 Victoria Street, Seddon 3011
P: 9689 6373
M: 0409 333 595
F: 9689 6227
E: elizabeth.ingham at parliament.vic.gov.au
W: http://mps.vic.greens.org.au

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