Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing) | Hansard source

Today I rise to wish Zaneta Mascarenhas all the best for the upcoming federal election in the federal seat of Swan. Zaneta will be a key part of bringing an Anthony Albanese Labor government to power in this nation, but we're taking nothing for granted. We're talking to voters in the federal electorate of Swan.

Zaneta is an engineer and has worked on mine sites right around Western Australia for 10 years. She is also the mum of two young children and she cares very much about both our natural environment and conservation and the jobs of today and tomorrow. Zaneta has been inspired to run at this election and to join the great Australian Labor Party based on the really important experiences of her family. Her parents lived in Kenya and they sought to migrate to Australia, but this was during the White Australia policy. Her father was a metalworker, a trade very much needed in Australia at that time—and indeed needed now today. They applied to come to Australia and were told, 'Yes, you've got the right skills but you're the wrong skin colour.'

When Gough Whitlam came to power, abolishing that policy, Zaneta's parents were able to come to Australia and start their new lives. That is why Zaneta is running; she is running because she wants people to be able to afford the freedom and fairness that her parents saw when they first migrated to Western Australia. (Time expired)