Andrew Hastie (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Labor's cost-of-living crisis has smashed people in outer-metro and regional Australia. Prices are up everywhere. Groceries are up, power bills are up, health premiums are up, mortgage payments and rents are up, running costs for vehicles are up, and Labor's four-wheel drive and ute tax will drive them up further. If you tow a boat, a caravan, a horse float or a trailer, you will pay more. If you drive a ute for work or an SUV for your family, you will pay more. The truth is people are hurting with Labor's cost-of-living crisis. They've been forgotten by Labor. In Mandurah, we're still waiting for the Peel Health Campus to be upgraded. We have a massive housing shortage. Young couples are priced out of our local market as they are forced to compete with cashed-up foreign investors and temporary visa holders. Our roads are congested for the same reason. Immigration under Labor is out of control.

There isn't enough public transport, and my new constituents in Singleton, Golden Bay, Karnup and Secret Harbour are still waiting for the Karnup train station to be built. The Labor member for Brand has had years to get it done. The sweet spot was over the last three years. All the decision-makers were in place: she had a Labor premier; she had a Labor prime minister. Yet she couldn't get the job done.

Well, I'm here to deliver for those forgotten Australians. I fought hard and I got the Lakelands train station built and funded, despite Labor resistance. I will get the Karnup train station delivered for my new constituents.