September 6, 2026 — 5:00am
Queensland could teach Victoria a simple lesson about how to fix a pothole: mix 3 per cent bitumen and 1 per cent cement into granular pavement to make it more resilient.
It’s one of many tried-and-tested solutions that could reduce potholes and help fix the now-politically charged pothole crisis playing out in every corner of Victoria.
Such are the levels of disquiet, rising to anger, about potholes in the state, Labor announced a plan to put Victorian inmates on the tools to help fix the mess – hoping it will appease fed-up drivers who have made an extra 10,000 complaints this year compared with last.
In his latest pre-election pledge, Premier Ben Carroll said low-security prisoners could perform basic roadside maintenance such as mowing grass, removing graffiti and picking up rubbish.
