Joanne Ryan (Lalor, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The ideologues are in the room today—the people who have held this government back. The member for Deakin is in the room today. When Victorians think of him, they think of the man who failed to bring in the changes their government had agreed to on the payday lenders. They've failed to do the things they promised to do, not just in Victoria but nationally. They've failed to protect the most vulnerable people in our communities. All we've seen are cuts, cuts, cuts and a Victorian opposition that wouldn't call them to account. It's a Victorian opposition that wouldn't stand up for our pensioners.

Did I ever hear a member of the Victorian Liberal and National opposition complain about the nine months people are waiting to get their pensions? Not a word from the Victorian opposition about the people in my electorate waiting months and months. There's not a word about the tertiary students waiting a full semester to get the youth allowance—not a word from the state opposition.

That's why Victorians voted for state Labor on Saturday, because they're delivering. I am ever grateful to the Victorians who voted for state Labor on the weekend because they're going to give Labor an opportunity to deliver for another four years—to deliver the hundred schools that they've promised, to deliver the grade separations in my electorate and to deliver for all Victorians every day of that four years.

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