Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. With less than 72 hours until people start voting in Saturday's Victorian election, will the Prime Minister please spend as much time in Melbourne as possible? Will the Prime Minister explain his Liberal government's vision for a society where wind turbines do not get built, money is cut from public education and public transport gets nothing at all?

Government Members:

Government members interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There will be silence on my right.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am very happy to answer that question and I am very happy to give the member my vision for Victoria and for Melbourne. My vision for Melbourne is a Melbourne with the East West Link built. My vision for Victoria is a state that is run by the Premier, not by the leader of the CFMEU. That is my vision for Melbourne. My vision for Victoria is state with a government that is responsible to the people, not alternatively to the Greens and to John Setka, the leader of the CFMEU. That is because if there is a change of government in Victoria—

Mr Marles interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Corio is warned.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

on the weekend, and I do not believe that there will be, the East West Link will not be built. The people of Victoria will be down three—

Opposition members interjecting—

We have one of the Victorian members saying, 'Hear, hear.' He does not want the East West Link. He is on a unity ticket with the Daniel Andrews and the member for Wills. It was straight out of his mouth.

Mr Kelvin Thomson interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Wills is not in his seat and may not speak.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

'Hear, hear,' he says. He does not want the East West Link built. That is the problem. What does the Leader of the Opposition think? We might, perhaps just for once, get a bit of spine from the Leader of the Opposition—

Mr Kelvin Thomson interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Wills will leave under section 94(a).

The member for Wills then left the chamber.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

and he might tell us what he thinks. If there is a change of government in Victoria, the East West Link will not be built. The people of Melbourne will continue to be in traffic gridlock and the most powerful person in the State will be John Setka, the leader of the CFMEU. This is not a vision; this is a nightmare.