Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's the last day of the sitting year, so I thought I'd do a quick recap. The National Anti-Corruption Commission is up and running. We've legislated a 43 per cent emissions reduction target and a plan to get us there. We've updated the Murray-Darling Basin River plan, and we've introduced the Nature Repair Market to bring more money into environmental work. The gender pay gap is at 13 per cent, the lowest ever in this country, with paid parental leave, paid domestic violence leave and cheaper child care helping to make that difference. We've introduced a pay rise for aged-care workers and 24/7 nursing in every nursing home. We've increased the JobSeeker rate and Commonwealth rent assistance and raised the age cut-off for the single parent payment, and enabled seniors to earn more before it affects their pension. We have an urgent care clinic in Marion and an endometriosis clinic in Glenelg, and we've tripled the bulk-billing incentive. The reduction in the pharmaceutical co-payment and the introduction of the 60-day scripts means cheaper medicines.

Locally, the Marion Road and Cross Road tram overpass prep work is well advanced, and work has begun on the Majors Road on- and off-ramp. Marino Hall has been demolished, and a fantastic new replacement is being built. Blackwood Library has been completed, and I'm about to turn the sod on the Eden Hills Scout and Rotary rebuild. There's the reserve redevelopment at Weaver St, Edwardstown, and Ballara Park in Warradale was opened some months ago. And a defib machine has gone into Seacliff Surf Life Saving Club.

There's so much more: fee-free TAFE, more university places, closing loopholes. Merry Christmas, Boothby.

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