MPs’ offices count every email from a real constituent. A short, personal message with your name and street carries far more weight than a petition signature — and ten minutes of your time is currency the project team can’t ignore.

Make it yours (it matters)

• Add your name, your building or street, and one sentence about how the project affects you personally. Offices discount identical form letters — even small edits make your email count as an individual piece of correspondence.
• Tweak the subject line if you can.
• Send from your own email address and include your suburb/postcode — it proves you’re a constituent and voter.
• Be firm but courteous. We are not opposed to the project — we want it done properly.

1. The Hon Vicki Ward MP — Minister for Public Transport (Labor)

Dear Minister Ward,

My name is [your name] and I live at [your building / street], Brunswick, on the Upfield corridor. I am writing as a supporter of Elevating Brunswick, the community group that speaks for apartment residents along the corridor. I support removing the level crossings — I want this project built, and built properly.

Ahead of the 2027 concept design, I ask you to:

1. Meet with Elevating Brunswick. The group speaks for residents of more than 20 buildings and brings constructive, costed ideas — not objections.
2. Review the North Brunswick Station location. Shifting it just south of Hope Street, onto sites already permitted for up to 500 apartments, would deliver an integrated station-and-housing precinct, protect Bulleke-Bek Park, and stop platforms being built metres from bedrooms. It is precisely the transit-oriented development your government champions.
3. Review the decision to bring the rail down to ground at Tinning Street. This leaves a 700-metre gap to the Moreland Road skybridge your government built in 2021. I share Elevating Brunswick’s view that this is a cost-cutting measure, not the maintenance-access rationale given — and it places the Wirru Wirru Bik apartments hard against the descent. Those homes must be protected.
4. Commit to fully funding and completing this project — not scaling it back, as has occurred with the Suburban Rail Loop.
5. Ensure genuine consultation with Brunswick residents before designs are locked in. To date, key decisions have been presented as non-negotiable.

[One or two sentences on how the project affects you personally — e.g. how close you live to the corridor, or what the station precinct means for your daily life.]

I would appreciate your response.

Kind regards,

[Your name]

[Your street, Brunswick VIC 3056]

2. Evan Mulholland MLC — Shadow Minister for Transport Infrastructure (Liberal)

To: evan.mulholland@parliament.vic.gov.au

Subject: Brunswick Level Crossing Removal — your constituents want it done properly

Dear Mr Mulholland,

My name is [your name] and I live at [your building / street], Brunswick — in your Northern Metropolitan Region. I am a supporter of Elevating Brunswick, the community group that speaks for apartment residents along the Upfield corridor. I am not opposed to the Level Crossing Removal Project; I want it delivered properly.

As Shadow Minister for Transport Infrastructure and one of our local upper-house members, I ask you to:

1. Meet with Elevating Brunswick. They can walk you along the corridor and show you exactly what residents like me face — including apartments within metres of the proposed structures.
2. Commit that a Coalition government would complete this project in full, without cutting its funding or scope. Brunswick has already absorbed a four-year delay; residents deserve certainty from both sides of politics.
3. Commit to relocating the proposed North Brunswick Station to just south of Hope Street. The current site puts one of the line’s busiest future stations on its most constrained land, destroys our only local park, and requires acquiring homes from unwilling owners. The alternative sits on land already permitted for 500 apartments, with a willing developer — better transport, better housing, better value for taxpayers.

[One or two sentences on how the project affects you personally.]

Labor has so far refused to review these decisions. There are thousands of apartment residents — and voters — along this corridor who are watching who listens.

I would appreciate your response.

Kind regards,

[Your name]

[Your street, Brunswick VIC 3056]

3. The Hon Ben Carroll MP — Premier of Victoria (Labor)

To: ben.carroll@parliament.vic.gov.au

Subject: Brunswick Level Crossing Removal — a housing win your government is about to miss

Dear Premier,

My name is [your name] and I live at [your building / street], Brunswick, on the Upfield corridor. I am a supporter of Elevating Brunswick, the community group that speaks for apartment residents along the corridor. I support the Level Crossing Removal Project — I simply want it done properly.

As Premier, I ask you to:

1. Meet with Elevating Brunswick. The group represents residents of more than 20 apartment buildings — the very people who chose the dense, transit-connected living your government is asking Victorians to embrace.
2. Direct a review of the North Brunswick Station location. Moving it just south of Hope Street, onto sites already permitted for up to 500 apartments, would create an integrated station-and-housing precinct — a flagship for your government’s activity-centre and housing agenda — instead of a cramped station metres from existing bedrooms that destroys our only local park.
3. Commit to fully funding and completing this project. After the delay from 2027 to 2030/31, Brunswick cannot absorb a Suburban Rail Loop-style scaling back.
4. Ensure genuine consultation with Brunswick residents. So far, station locations have been treated as non-negotiable and a community FOI request was denied. Brunswick has voters who notice the difference between being consulted and being informed.

[One or two sentences on how the project affects you personally.]

This is a rare chance to pair new rail with new housing on the same footprint. I would appreciate your response.

Kind regards,

[Your name]

[Your street, Brunswick VIC 3056][Your street, Brunswick VIC 3056]

4. Jess Wilson MP — Leader of the Opposition (Liberal)

To: jess.wilson@parliament.vic.gov.au

Subject: Brunswick Level Crossing Removal — commit to finishing it properly

Dear Ms Wilson,

My name is [your name] and I live at [your building / street], Brunswick, on the Upfield rail corridor. I am a supporter of Elevating Brunswick, the community group that speaks for apartment residents along the corridor. I am not opposed to the Level Crossing Removal Project — I want it completed, and completed properly.

Ahead of the election, I ask you to:

1. Meet with Elevating Brunswick. The group speaks for residents of more than 20 buildings and can show you first-hand what the current design gets wrong — and the practical alternative it has put forward.
2. Commit that a Coalition government would complete this project in full, with no reduction in funding or scope. The project has already slipped from 2027 to 2030/31; residents on the corridor need certainty that a change of government would not mean further delay or a diminished outcome.
3. Commit to relocating the proposed North Brunswick Station to just south of Hope Street. The current site would destroy our only nearby park, put platforms metres from residents’ bedrooms, and require compulsorily acquiring homes — while land already permitted for 500 apartments sits 170 metres away with a willing developer. It’s better transport, better housing and better value.

[One or two sentences on how the project affects you personally.]

Labor has so far declined to review these decisions. The thousands of apartment residents along this corridor are voters looking for someone who will listen.

I would appreciate your response.

Kind regards,

[Your name]

[Your street, Brunswick VIC 3056]