"We've engaged deeply with Traditional Owners. And that's why we've come to an agreement that I know not everybody will be supportive of. But at some point you've got to try and come to an agreement and then be faithful to the terms of that," Daniel Andrews said.
"If we waited around to get 100 per cent buy-in on this, if we waited around for an absolute consensus, then that deadly stretch of road would go unimproved, and we would see more people dying on that road. And I'm just not prepared to settle for that.
"We've made significant changes to what the upgrade would have looked like. I know people have strong feelings about these matters. But we have had court processes, we've had agreements, we've had settlements, we have fundamentally done as we said we would do. And we have directly consulted and continue to consult with the 12 families that are the Traditional Owners of this particular part of our state. They speak for that country.
"I'm not casting aspersions on others who may have views still. But ultimately we've got to get on and get this done. We've done it in as respectful a way as we can, but it is a deadly stretch of road and it needs to be upgraded. I can't quite recall the total number of people who have died, but it is a substantial number in recent years, and there's been many other crashes, that whilst have not been fatal, they could easily have been."
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