Louise Miller-Frost
Boothby · Australian Labor Party · Australia
“This has been a big week in parliament and a big week for delivery by the Albanese Labor government. The Solar Saver program started—three hours of power in the middle of the day. We expanded paid parental leave to a full six months. We opened the National Environmental Protection Agency and we opened a new veteran wellbeing agency.”
“More recently, we announced that we will strengthen consumer protections for those on Support at Home by empowering the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to be able to order refunds for overcharged services and to be able to report publicly on investigations and enforcement actions; by producing each quarter a national summary of Su…”
“The demographics are not in our favour. Next year, 90,000 additional Australians will turn 80; 15 years ago that number was 15,000. This has an impact on the service offerings we need to provide, specifically in aged care and health.”
“While we listen to those opposite try to throw blame around and cynically, desperately, try to claw back some votes, we should turn to an independent arbiter as to why the aged-care system is where it is right now.”
“The government's plan to expand and improve aged-care services in Australia will also mean an expansion of end-of-life pathway, providing dignified care to older Australians in their final months.”
“We are confronted with this reality and we are confronting the reality with a plan—a plan that will ensure that every older Australian can get affordable and timely access to the quality care they need and deserve, and a plan that will improve and expand the system to make it fit for purpose and sustainable well into the foreseeable futur…”
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“The Albanese government is closing in on three years in government, and, for me, it's been almost three years as the member for Boothby. My entire career has been about serving my community through my work in the health sector, my work in local government, delivering services and infrastructure, and my work in the not-for-profit sector as CEO of Catherine House and St Vincent de Paul in SA. I decided to run because of the appalling record of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Liberal government.”
“I can advise that the South Australian Labor Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Tom Koutsantonis, absolutely ruled out a freight route on Cross Road and Portrush Road prior to the 2022 state election and has now submitted a business case to Infrastructure Australia for the entire freight bypass with two lanes each way, so the residents of Boothby and Sturt can rest assured. At the 2022 election in Boothby, there were differences of opinion and policy, but no-one actually lied about the position of their opponents. Sadly, this has not been the case for the Liberals in Boothby this time, and the election hasn't even been called. It just goes to show you can't believe anything the Liberals say; you have to look at what they do.”
“It seems odd, yes? Well, last week we found out what this was about. The Liberal tenders required the intersections to be upgraded to freight standard. So, while they were still pretending they were doing a one-lane freight bypass at Truro, they were, in reality, funding massive upgrades of Cross Road and Portrush Road to freight standards. But it gets worse. We now find out that the Liberals had a report done on what it would cost to further progress their sneaky Cross Road freight route. They worked out how much it would cost to purchase up to 188 homes and businesses that they would need to compulsorily acquire.”
“They tried to say this was their major freight bypass, but their plans showed one lane each way, and it didn't join up to the freeway or the expressway—one lane each way for a major freight bypass. But they were not averse to building extra lanes, because, at the time they were allegedly planning the totally inadequate Truro bypass, they put $61 million of federal funding into widening an intersection on Cross Road in Boothby and $98 million of federal funding into widening an intersection on Portrush Road in Sturt. Both of these intersections—on roads that we're trying to get the freight traffic off—mysteriously have extra lanes around the intersections. These lanes, however, disappear a couple of hundred metres from the intersection, where you suddenly have a bottleneck, as traffic has to merge back into the more narrow road.”
“There has been a lot of talk about the Greater Adelaide Freight Bypass in South Australia. The freight bypass would take heavy vehicles off South Eastern Freeway, around the back of the hills and onto the Northern Expressway. The aim is to get unnecessary heavy vehicles off Cross Road in Boothby and Portrush Road in Sturt. At the 2018 South Australian election, which was won by the Liberal Party, they campaigned that they would build the bypass, which they called Globelink. But less than two years later the then Liberal premier Steven Marshall cancelled Globelink. They then said they would still do a road version but all they planned was a bypass around the rural town of Truro.”
“My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education. How is the Albanese Labor government reforming the early childhood education and care sector to support families? Is there anything that could put this at risk and leave Australians worse off?”