Ms CHARISHMA KALIYANDA: I have to start with abolishing the wages cap. Many of our most essential public sector workers saw their wages go backwards for 12 years. That meant playing catch-up. Many of our nurses, teachers and caseworkers on the front line of providing essential services have experienced the cost‑of‑living issues that members hear about from our constituents. In 2008 a workday peak-hour route from Liverpool to the city cost about $8.80. In 2023, under members opposite, it cost $24. That is an increase of 300 per cent. Talk about a cost-of-living crisis! There was not a road that those opposite did not want to toll, and it was a Western Sydney toll. Looking at the application of tolls across our city, we see that toll increases were mainly experienced by those of us in the west.

Let us compare that figure with the toll paid by those in North Sydney. In 2008 the toll to get into the city from North Sydney was $4. In 2023 the toll was still $4. Meanwhile, the tolls that my constituents in Liverpool paid increased to $24 daily. Those opposite were smashing Western Sydney families because they only cared about their mates. We are not just addressing tolls or acute cost-of-living issues faced by New South Wales residents. We are also tackling the housing crisis that those opposite pretended fell out of the sky 18 months ago. The supply of quality and affordable housing, the essential maintenance and upgrades of our public housing stock, and reforming the rental market and strata schemes to adequately fit the needs of today's community are challenges that we have taken on and delivered on.

A couple of weeks ago we passed important legislation to make our rental laws fairer for the almost one‑third of New South Wales residents who rent. We are also addressing the gender pay gap. In the 18 months since March 2023, we have reduced the gender pay gap from 11.8 per cent to 9.8 per cent. That is a 2 per cent decrease in just 18 months, and removing the wages cap was a large part of it. We also introduced portable long service leave for 250,000 community services workers who day in, day out support some of the most vulnerable people in our community. Those opposite did not care about those workers enough to ensure that they had access to basic workplace rights. They also had the opportunity to pass industrial manslaughter laws, but they did not want to tackle that for the 12 years they were in government. We delivered that within our first 18 months in government to provide protections for some of the most vulnerable workers in our State. There are so many different aspects of rebuilding New South Wales this Government is delivering on that I have run out of time to list them.