Hansard debates

Mr McGUIRE (Broadmeadows) (19:07): (1891) My adjournment request is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. The action I seek is for her to come to Broadmeadows and inform the Broadmeadows Revitalisation Board of the important strategic nature of what she is doing as the minister for transport and the big picture that the Andrews Labor government is driving to actually get reinvestments into areas—what we are trying to do through planning, housing, transport, education, lifelong learning, skills and jobs for meaning and how this connects. This is really why governments matter, even to the entire point that people too often forget: only Labor delivers on this. This is the reality, and I think it is really important.

There should not be an argument about the future of the Broadmeadows railway station in the local newspaper. That is a folly. Let us get to the big-picture issues about what is going on, about how the investment has been made by the Andrews Labor government to actually look at how we connect all these things together and how we make this happen, because what happens is that people forget too quickly that we had the reverse Robin Hood strategy from the one-term coalition government. They took the money out and they transferred it down the line to Frankston, and they acted against the best interests of the state in how to actually build communities and develop opportunities.

Here is the once-in-a-generation opportunity we now have: we have attracted an investor for $500 million into the Ford site; he wants to deliver new industries and jobs of the future. That is what we do as a government. That is what only the Labor Party delivers, and it should never be forgotten that you do not waste these opportunities.

We have got the Minister for Planning at the table tonight as well, and I want to acknowledge what he has done previously in housing. We are looking at affordable housing. These are iconic, life-changing propositions, and we have got a great example of the proof of this in Broadmeadows. This is how you actually can deny that miser, fate. This is what it requires and how we bring it together.

Let us see the bigger picture. Let us collaborate and corroborate. Let us get the three tiers of government to work together. And it fits within the city deal for Melbourne’s north and west as well. I think that is the proposition. That is why Labor matters, and only the Andrews Labor government delivers.