A MINORITY report to the State Government’s Climate Resilience Inquiry has uncovered repeated failures by the State Government to deliver practical, community-led solutions to erosion on the Bass Coast.

While the Bass Coast battles a worsening coastal erosion crisis The Nationals claim the State Labor Government has offered little more than delays and excuses.

“The Allan Labor Government is all talk and no action,” said Nationals’ MP Melina Bath.

“Bass Coast needs urgent real solutions (including) protection from erosion and infrastructure that can withstand future disasters,” said Ms Bath.

Glenn Arnold President of the Inverloch Surf Lifesaving Club told the Climate Resilience Inquiry layers of bureaucracy were ultimately crippling decision-making and paralysing any action moving forward.

Liberal and National Party members of the Legislative Assembly Environment and Planning Committee (EPC) said they fundamentally supported efforts to strengthen Victoria’s resilience in the face of continued climate change.

The minority report claimed the State Government had neglected and mismanaged Victoria’s climate adaptation response particularly in rural and coastal areas.

The Inverloch Surf Life Saving Club was a stark illustration of this communities according to The Nationals and Liberal Party.

The EPC heard that since 2013 the loss of over sixty metres of protective dune at Inverloch had exposed vital assets to the elements jeopardizing not only physical structures but also the lives of those who rely on them.

The Nationals and Liberals called for the Cape-to-Cape Resilience Plan to be urgently revised with interim protection works delivered to high-risk sites like Inverloch.

Bass Coast Shire Council told the inquiry that within the last five years the cost of reconstruction of assets had doubled without factoring in climate change.