Sally Sitou (Reid, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There once was a premier called Perrottet. To privatise stuff was his only play. As hard as he tried, the impulse he couldn't hide, and he sold every one of our assets away. The New South Wales state election is upon us, and the choice could not be more clear. On the one hand, you have the coalition government which, after almost 12 years in power, are about as old and tired as they come. It's a coalition government which keeps the wages of our essential workers down—nurses, teachers, our ambos, the ones who got us through the pandemic. None of them deserved a pay rise, according to Premier Perrottet and his coalition government. It's a government who will, frankly, privatise anything with a pulse.

Contrast that with the Minns Labor team. They will create a publicly owned clean energy corporation to expand investment in renewable energy and put downward pressure on power prices. The Minns Labor team will protect public ownership of Sydney Water and Hunter Water by putting it in the New South Wales constitution. A Minns Labor team will remove the wages cap that has kept the wages of our essential workers low for too long. The choice is clear: on Saturday, vote 1 Labor.