Tony Abbott during his visit to Mulgoa yesterday.
Tony Abbott during his visit to Mulgoa yesterday.
Tony Abbott during his visit to Mulgoa yesterday.
Tony Abbott during his visit to Mulgoa yesterday.
Tony Abbott has followed Prime Minister Julia Gillard on her tour of western Sydney this week.
He visited Leumeah on Saturday, Auburn on Sunday, was in Rooty Hill on Monday, in Mulgoa yesterday and in the Lindsay electorate today.
Mr Abbott criticised Ms Gillard's visit to the west as just a ploy to win voters and said voters wanted policy rather than just visits to their electorates.
He was interviewed Jim Taggart on north west Sydney community radio station Alive 90.5 today at 3pm yesterday.
Listen to the audio transcript of the interview here:
Read Mr Abbott's editorial column addressed to western Sydney below:
Last Saturday, I was at Leumeah train station in Campbelltown to talk about the Coalition’s plan for safer streets and increased CCTV presence in crime hotspots.
On Sunday, my daughter Bridget and I helped out with a Clean Up Australia Day event at Duck River in Auburn – a great community event, led by our candidate for Reid, Craig Laundy, and with many local participants helping out to clean up this degraded waterway.
I visited Rooty Hill on Monday morning and got stuck in the usual bumper-to-bumper traffic on the M4 – which only highlighted for me the importance of the Coalition’s commitment to get WestConnex built.
On Thursday, I visited Mulgoa Preschool with Fiona Scott, our candidate for Lindsay, and two of my daughters, Frances and Bridget, to talk about the Coalition’s plans for more affordable and flexible childcare for the families of western Sydney.
I have visited western Sydney some 51 times since the last election. I know that the people of western Sydney want constructive engagement with their national government. They want reassurance that there are people in our public life who have a plan for them and their future.
The Coalition’s plan for western Sydney is quite straightforward: we’ll improve the transport issue through building WestConnex; we’ll help reduce the cost of living pressures by abolishing the carbon tax; we’ll get CCTV cameras into crime hotspots to send a message to criminals that crime doesn’t pay; and we’ll reintroduce proven policies on border protection and the boats.
No one has said that western Sydney is second rate but the Labor Party has treated western Sydney as second rate by neglecting it and taking it for granted for so long.
There are many people in western Sydney who are doing it tough right now and they need hope and confidence that there can be a better government in Canberra.
This is the change for the better that the Coalition will deliver, should there be a change of government at the next election.