What sort of mess might that create if there is a change of government?

Well, look, who, who knows what's going to happen in the election, and that's up to the residents of Victoria to decide who's going to lead the country or the, the, the state.

But where I really am concerned that the caretaker mode is only a, a mere few days away, and we've got, uh, the Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny approving lots of different projects.

And two, uh, that are, are equally concerning is the project in Gippsland, which has been approved, and the operator or the developer there is actually in voluntary administration.

And the Avonbank's mine, which is extremely close to food processing and exporting facility at Drouin, and I just absolutely cannot believe that, um, uh, the planning process would allow, uh, the potential risk to our food exports and, and quality of food.

It's all a bit political, and I'd love to hear from Ben Carroll, uh, to see what he thinks about approving so many pl... um, projects so quickly.

Uh, what's going on in your community when you've got these two camps with such strong and such different opinions?

Oh, well, certainly it's, um, divided the community, and I would say the area of most divide is around Birchip.

What are you really hoping to achieve?

Well, I would hope that we bring about a proper protest within government.

And I think that's an extremely important thing.

What government's been doing at this stage has been appalling.

The poor process with mining approvals, with the transmission line and the fast track approvals of some renewable projects have all been impacting on regional and rural Victoria.

I think people are generally fed up with the poor process of government.

And we absolutely cannot stand for the emergency services and volunteers levy, which has been imposed on farmland at 420% higher than on metropolitan residential properties.

Was there that level of anger and frustration there today?