Emma Husar (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Today, I rise to put on the record my support for all of the people in Lindsay. It is a privilege and a very, very humble duty that I have to serve my community. The people of Lindsay are hardworking, decent and honest people, and I say that at every opportunity. What they don't want to see is their hard-earned taxes squandered. That is exactly what they see when they look at the Turnbull government spending $122 million on a sham postal survey. It is exactly what they see when they look at cuts to penalty rates and it is exactly what they see when they see promises not kept to ensure services are provided in our community.

Wages are not rising, but the state and federal coalition governments are ensuring that the cost of living does. There has been a cut of $77 a week to penalty rates, a 20 per cent rise in electricity prices in New South Wales and $9 a day in new taxes for people of Western Sydney, and no funding whatsoever to help the hardworking nurses and doctors at the most under-pressure hospital in New South Wales, the Nepean. When will the Liberals who are running this and the New South Wales government fix this? There are a couple of them in here now and I ask them.

Now we have a postal survey that we don't need to have. It will mean that $122 million is spent on something that we could deal with right now. The Turnbull government are bereft of ideas and paralysed in thought because they can't follow the laws of the Constitution dated 1901 or they think they're above the law.

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