STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Ms WATSON-BROWN (Ryan) (13:30): If you're starting to think that maybe something's wrong with how this country is run, you're right. Your pay can't keep up with the cost of everything; meanwhile, gas corporation CEO Kevin Gallagher's salary almost doubled last year to $9 million. You work hard and pay a huge stack in tax every year; gas corporation Santos makes billions and pays $0 in tax.

Your essential services are substandard and underfunded; the government blocks calls to raise $17 billion from taxing gas exports. People are doing all the right things, but living standards are dropping. Our politicians have sold us out to massive corporate interests.

There's no sugar coating this. Our politicians have been handing over Australia's wealth to multinational corporations bit by bit for decades—our resources, our public assets, our local industry, our scientific innovations. Changing this starts with voting out the people responsible and voting in people who don't answer to big corporations and lobbyists, people who will do what needs to be done: tax gas corporations; bring essential services back into public ownership; cut energy bills, medical bills and banking fees; make quality stuff in Australia again; build genuinely affordable homes.

Make Australia work for regular people. That's the Greens' plan.