Jo Briskey (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party) | Hansard source

Australia has always been a country of aspiration and opportunity, a country that holds true to a simple promise. In decades past that promise was realised on the factory floors in Airport West and along the railway line that stretches from Kensington to Glenroy. It was the promise idealised by the migrant families who came with nothing but courage and built our north-western suburbs of Melbourne out of sheer hope and hard work. The promise was simple: if you work hard and if you do the right thing by your family and the community, then this country will give you a fair go back, a home, a sense of security, a life a little better than the one before. That is a promise I grew up believing in. It is a promise that the people of my community still believe in, even though, for too long now, many have watched it quietly slip out of reach for them while they hold up their end of the bargain.

Well, today, the Albanese Labor government restores its end of the bargain. This is the kind of reform that governments talk about and flinch from and that gets put in the too-hard basket election after election. But this Albanese Labor government is getting it done.

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