Fiona Scott (Lindsay, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Firstly I would like to correct the previous speaker, the member for Shortland, and say that the Baird government will be leasing less than half of their assets. Out of the leasing of less than half the assets, they will buy a whole heap more assets and at the end of the day the people of New South Wales will own both.

What that means is more than two million people will move into Western Sydney over the next 25 years. This is a city about which the former Premier, Bob Carr, said, 'The city is full.' So the city was choked, with no infrastructure. It is great to see the member for Grayndler here, a big advocate for infrastructure for the people of Western Sydney.

What we want to see is $3.6 billion worth of infrastructure being given to the people of Western Sydney, by both the state government and the federal government together—$2.9 billion from the feds, $1.1 billion from the state government. Then we look at the M4. The M4 will see an upgrade from the Blue Mountains all the way into the WestConnex project and then around through to the M5. This will be more than two Snowy Mountains schemes—let me repeat that: more than two Snowy Mountains schemes.

Really, the choice is simple. You vote on Saturday for a government that will continue to make New South Wales No. 1. They made New South Wales No. 1. They took New South Wales from being last in the country to No. 1. There is only one choice: vote for the Baird government.

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