Infrastructure

Mr HAWKE (Mitchell) (09:36): I rise today to continue my campaign on the Rouse Hill Hospital to ensure this vital public service is not just completed but constructed within a reasonable timeframe. The former coalition government allocated the land and got underway with the planning for a new public hospital just outside my community and the electorate of Mitchell, one of the fastest growing areas of Sydney. I want to note at the outset that the Minns Labor government is asking my community in Mitchell and the electorate of Greenway across the road to triple our development targets to take 30,000 new dwellings. At the same time, it is not progressing infrastructure like the Rouse Hill Hospital—one of the vital services absolutely needed if they're going to ask for a tripling of the density dwellings within our communities.

When you look at the population that has already come, this hospital has been flagged as absolutely necessary. There is pressure on the Blacktown Hospital and emergency room. The Blacktown Hospital was upgraded by a Liberal-National government at the state level, even though it has been a Labor electorate for maybe 100 years. The only government that upgraded the public hospital at Blacktown to a fully serviced public hospital was a Liberal-National government. I call on the member for Greenway, Michelle Rowland, who has fallen into the interesting position of taking part of my electorate now under a redistribution—we're now crossing over for a period of time in which she'll be the Labor candidate and I'll be the Liberal serving member—to get her socks on and get the Minns government t