Broadmeadows electorate funding
Mr McGUIRE (Broadmeadows) (09:55): Small investments are invaluable and urgent to save lives and livelihoods, revive our economy, create opportunity and deliver prosperity. We know the pandemic stalks inequality, therefore the most significant needs-based investment is only $79 million for the hospital upgrade in Broadmeadows, the epicentre for outbreaks, with statewide lockdowns costing $1 billion weekly. The added value in the plan I am proposing is that it will relieve the highest number of patients attending the emergency department and ambulance ramping in this state, at the Northern Hospital. The health centre of excellence demands more funding for Kangan Institute to combine training for nurses and allied health workers where they are needed most.
My campaign for needs-based funding will continue, and I also want to make sure we fix the Broadmeadows railway station, because that is a critical catalyst. Cabinet ministers have publicly called me the relentless Frank McGuire. I wear that label with honour because I am relentless with a cause: confronting inequality, creating opportunity and delivering prosperity.