Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On Tuesday it will be two years since I was elected to be the voice of Dunkley in Canberra. It is a privilege that I work so hard to live up to every single day, as I did this week when I brought the Frankston City Council mayor and staff to Canberra to lobby government ministers and opposition shadow ministers alike on the needs of our community. We are a community which is rich with talent and with compassion. We are rich with people and organisations that use those traits to benefit our local community and the broader community. What we need—what we deserve—is a government that will back us in.

What was in the budget for Dunkley? There was nothing for the McClelland sculpture gallery, nor for the culture, the arts and the tourism that it brings. There was nothing for Emil Madsen Reserve or the other sporting precincts, nor for the young people and the old people and everyone in between who love and live sport in my electorate. There was nothing for Monash University, the peninsula campus of which has been so important to keeping my electorate going through COVID. There has just been extra money for already announced projects, because the government got their numbers wrong when they first announced them.

I'm here fighting for my community while the Morrison government is here fighting to protect the disgraced and disgraceful Andrew Laming.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member's time has expired. I will just say to the member for Dunkley and others: members need to be referred to by their correct titles.