Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We have a change in leadership but will this result in a better deal for the people of Western Australia? Will we see the $500 million ripped from Perth rail projects returned to the budget? Will the new leader reverse the decision to deny Western Australia the chance to build the next generation of offshore patrol vessels? Will he reverse the absurd rule changes made this year around remoteness that saw hundreds of millions of GST dollars ripped out of Western Australia? Will he review the reckless Perth Freight Link project and invest in an outer harbour to ensure that we do not create port bottlenecks that will threaten our export-orientated economy?

Does he have the ability to understand that Australians must have a fair chance at Australian jobs and fix the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement? And will he acknowledge that fibre-to-the-node NBN, using rubbish copper, will be cheating the tens of thousands of households and businesses in Canning out of having 21st century digital infrastructure? And does he have the moral courage to protect the future of all Australians and reintroduce an emissions trading scheme, which he knows we must do to fight climate change? Or is his future more important than that of our children and our grandchildren?