Emma Husar (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The community that I represent—I come in here often and I feel like I am bragging about it—is wonderful. We are generous, family-minded and fair. We love Western Sydney and we are proud of our place in the world. We have so many brilliant things—our people, our river and our proximity to the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains. The country town feel of six degrees of separation is actually feeling more like four degrees every day.

We are all incredibly lucky to call Lindsay home. Of course, there are things that could make our area an even better place to live. Every day in this place I fight and I focus on raising those matters. For the benefit of the government, I will happily recap those things that I have spoken up on, including the Western Sydney Airport and making sure we are not being sold a pup about the Nepean Hospital's lack of infrastructure and the urgent need to upgrade and plan for its future and our growing population. I often speak about local schools and how much Lindsay students will miss out on without the unity ticket that was once promised by those on the other side. I constantly raise the unfair priorities of this government—

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