Federal election
Mr CARBINES (Ivanhoe—Minister for Child Protection and Family Services, Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers) (09:48): I rise to congratulate my federal colleague locally, Kate Thwaites, the federal member for Jagajaga, for her strong endorsement at the election on the weekend, doubling her two-party-preferred margin with a 6.5 per cent swing. Her primary vote also increased, a great result, as the Liberal primary dropped some 10 per cent—a big improvement in the vote, with a 10 per cent swing in Heidelberg and a 7 per cent swing in East Ivanhoe. I just wanted to say to Alex and her campaign team congratulations on their hard work, their strong Labor values and the very strong endorsement from the community across the Ivanhoe electorate in Jagajaga. I am looking forward to working with new ministers to be sworn in in the next week: Linda Burney in family and social services, as we work through our child protection and family services work; Bill Shorten, who will become most likely the minister around the NDIS, to move away from the fear and loathing the disability community have had in their engagement with the NDIS and the previous government; and of course Clare O’Neil, in the work we have been able to do in the past in opposition when she was shadow minister for ageing and seniors. I want to also thank and congratulate Sam Rae, the new federal member for Hawke; the Honourable Richard Marles, the Deputy Prime Minister, for the work we have done together in his electorate of Corio for very many years; and my work colleague Libby Coker, who had again a very strong endorsement in Corangamite. I congratulate her—it was never in doubt.