Amanda Rishworth (Kingston, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to ask the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister a question about community cabinets. There was a community cabinet held in July last year in my electorate of Kingston. Over 800 people from around the southern suburbs of Adelaide and even further afield came to the Hallett Cove School R-12 to meet with the whole cabinet and the Prime Minister. This was an incredibly successful event. I got incredibly good feedback after the process. I think people were particularly pleased that they got to ask the Prime Minister direct questions. The Prime Minister was asked a number of direct questions, and I thought I would mention some of the concerns in my local area that were raised at the community cabinet. They included questions on water and pensions and a whole range of other issues, including congratulating the Prime Minister and acknowledging the fact that he said sorry to the Indigenous people of this country.

People particularly enjoyed having individual meetings with their local cabinet ministers. This was very important because it allowed people to have that one-on-one connection with the different cabinet ministers on a range of different issues. Certainly the members of the Hallett Cove Residents Association were very pleased to have a one-on-one meeting with the Prime Minister, during which they were able to discuss the issue of broadband in the area—

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