Patrick Gorman (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Western Australia) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

As omicron begins to spread through my electorate, Western Australians look to this Prime Minister's failures with fear: scared of a man who stands for so little that he would fund a million dollars of Clive Palmer's court costs; fear that the shortages and price gouging of rapid antigen tests in the east will be repeated again in the west; anxiety that Western Australians will be added to the more than 622 aged-care residents who've died of COVID this year; frustration that omicron moves much faster than this 'not a race' Prime Minister and his slow booster and child vaccination program; anger that Western Australian taxpayer dollars go to fund car park rorts across the east coast; a fear that Clive Palmer is going to cut a desperate preference deal with this Prime Minister in the effort to save this terrible government; and, worst of all, that this government and this Prime Minister will lie to all of us about his plans, his failures and his rorts just so that he can win another election.

Western Australians want a better future. They want a new way—one where we learn the lessons of the last two years; where Medicare and our public health system are the backbone of a strong economy; where secure work and investment in TAFE are the foundation of economic growth; and where child care is affordable and accessible for all. If you want a better future, Australia needs an Albanese Labor government.