Labor and the opposition both went to Frankston on Monday, wooing voters in the state's second most marginal seat with competing promises on health and law and order.
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The Andrews government promised to spend $562 million on a major upgrade to Frankston Hospital if it is re-elected on November 24.
Labor says it will transform the 77-year-old hospital into an 11-storey facility with 120 new ward beds, two new operating theatres and 13 new emergency beds.
Premier Daniel Andrews and Health Minister Jill Hennessy visited Frankston hospital on Monday morning, promising to expand its child and maternal health services to meet booming demand in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.
The promised upgrade includes two new floors for mental health services, new maternity and obstetrics wards, a women’s clinic, a paediatric ward and special care nursery.
Mr Andrews said it was the biggest upgrade to an outer suburban hospital in Victoria's history.
"The community across this region deserve nothing less," Mr Andrews said.
"There's a lot of people who talk about growth – we get on and get things done and cater for that growth."
The government estimates there will be 3000 births a year at the expanded hospital by 2032, an increase of more than 1100 per cent on the 235 babies delivered in 2015-16.
Work is due to start in 2020 and be finished in 2024.
But shadow health minister Mary Wooldridge said Labor could not be trusted to deliver the hospital on time or on budget given its recent track record with the Monash Heart Hospital, where costs grew from an initial $150 million taxpayer outlay to $396 million.
"Frankston needs a new hospital but Daniel Andrews’ track record is appalling," Ms Wooldridge said.
"Daniel Andrews' last commitment for a new hospital in the south-east has blown out in cost by over 250 per cent and the time line is five years later than promised."
Opposition Leader Matthew Guy was also campaigning in Frankston on Monday, promising to recruit 100 extra protective services officers to patrol 20 Melbourne railway stations in daylight hours if the Coalition wins the November 24 election.
The Opposition promised to spend $57 million over four years to employ 100 extra PSOs and deploy them at “high crime spots” on the metropolitan network.
Mr Guy announced Frankston and Mordialloc stations on the Frankston line would be the first stations to see PSOs working on platforms between 10am and 6pm.
“We will have the single biggest expansion of our PSO system since they were introduced,” Mr Guy said.
“I want to see our railway stations become safer spaces but not just from 6pm to the last train, but all day.”
Michael Lamb, the Liberal candidate for Frankston and a former police station commander, said it was "very clear to see that the train system is used by the criminal element during the day", including ice-addicted people behaving erratically.
The former Baillieu Coalition government introduced PSOs to Melbourne stations between 6pm and the last service.
The Andrews government completed their rollout to every station on the network.
Police Minister Lisa Neville said Mr Guy's claim that the promise represented the biggest boost to PSOs since they were introduced was wrong.
One hundred and nine PSOs were recruited in 2016 to cover all-night services on weekends and $62.3 million was committed last year for 100 new mobile PSOs.
"These claims show yet again, you can't trust a word the Liberals say on law and order," Ms Neville said.
Last month it was agreed that PSOs would also patrol trains, as well as stations, after a deal was struck with the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, which represents authorised officers.
Labor holds the state seat of Frankston by a margin of just 0.5 per cent.
