Tania Lawrence (Hasluck, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Liberals and the Nationals are trying something new and different, a novel campaigning tool for this election, but they have left my community of Hasluck concerned and confused. The coalition are proposing to go to the election without telling the voters of Australia any detail except that there will be secret cuts—the coalition's secret cuts. But these cuts are not just a line item in the budget. They are 36,000 real people, all of whom we know.

So who gets cut? Will it be our neighbour working at the counter at Centrelink in Midland, or the uncle on the phone at the Cannington call centre right now, talking to pensioners in Hasluck? Who gets cut? Will it be your dedicated brothers and sisters working at the NDIS in Morley, actively working to help mums and dads ensure that their children have the care and support they need? Who gets cut? Surely it won't be the hundreds of newly employed public servants who are working on claims for the veterans from the Ellenbrook RSL right now, after being long neglected by the opposition. Who gets cut in the coalition's secret cuts? Who gets cut, and why the secrecy? Tell my constituents, the people of Hasluck, what you intend to cut from them. What don't they deserve?