Mr LAUNDY (Reid—Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science) (15:27): I rise to speak against the motion and note— Mr Bowen: The MPI. Mr LAUNDY: The MPI, I should say. Thank you, Shadow Treasurer. I note that for 23 years in Western Sydney, I was in hotels across Western Sydney and dealt with guns, dealt with bikies and dealt with drugs. Opposition members interjecting— Mr LAUNDY: Laugh, laugh, those opposite! It is not fun. A 21 years of age, I kicked in my first toilet door to pull a 21-year-old young bloke with a needle in his arm out and attempted to revive him. I failed. I have seen the scourge of drugs in real life on the front lines. It was one of the key motivations when, five years ago, I joined the Liberal Party. In the last term of that Labor government, they used the AFP as something they could continually cut funding and resources from. You had that crazy situation. The Leader of the Opposition runs out of the chamber! The irony of this week is that the Leader of the Opposition is using guns to hide behind. For six years, he had every chance to stand up. The member for Blaxland was the minister responsible. I felt sorry for him, because in Regents Park, where my family owned the Regents Park Hotel, was the biggest ever stash of methamphetamines. It was in his electorate whilst he was the minister. Why? Because under them, the resources cut to the AFP were at record levels. They were under 10 per cent of containers coming to this country—which contained all of our mail, by the way—that were checked. You heard the Prime Minister stand up in this place earlier in the week and talk about the member for Cook and the 220 Glocks that were found in a post-office box in his electorate. The safest way that organised criminals had under the Labor Party to get guns into this country was the genius idea of mailing the guns to themselves. The Glocks got through. Those opposite go quiet now. The irony—dysfunction, thy name is Labor—of them putting the word dysfunction in this MPI. For six years, there was pink batts, school halls, cash for clunkers, the carbon tax and the mining tax, which is my personal favourite. It did not raise a cent, but locked in $16 billion in expenditure. They are all politics and no substance. The irony is that the comedian, the Leader of the Opposition, stands up here for 10 minutes and keeps his backbench entertained. The people of Australia are over this crap. They are over it. Those opposite think all this resonates here in the beltway, but I have news for them: the people want to feel safe. The Minister for Justice, since coming to the role in 2013, along with this government, have them feeling safer than ever. When the games were going on last week, I waited in my seat at question time for the Manager of Opposition Business to ask one question of the minister about a 16-year-old boy and a colleague who were pulled up minutes away from an act of terror in his own electorate—but not one question. You are all politics on that side and no substance. We are getting on with government. If all this is in government it is one thing, but now we are seeing it in opposition. I do not mind them trying to take the focus off what is really going on—the internal power struggles of the Labor Party—but it is going on this week again. You put Kim Carr in, you take Kim Carr out; you put Kim Carr in—you are going to need some help to do the next part—and you shake him all about. When you do that, we find that a split in the Left emerges. Does anyone know who Gavin Marshall is? I have to read his name because I don't know who he is. You could not pick him in a line-up. Who is he? Instead of where's Wally, we should have where's Gavin Marshall. But he found his voice this week, and poor old Gilesy, Andrew Giles, and Catherine King, they are gone. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Coulton ): I ask the assistant minister to refer to members by their correct title. Mr LAUNDY: I am sorry, Mr Deputy Speaker. Andrew Giles and Catherine King are gone, apparently. I do not know what faction the member for Batman is in, but maybe Gavin Marshall can find your house. Maybe he can. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member for Lalor on a point of order. Ms Ryan: Could the member please refer to other members by their appropriate names. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I remind the assistant minister to refer to members in this House and the other one by their correct title. Mr LAUNDY: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Senator Marshall has made that much of an impact that I am guessing he is from Victoria. Then we have the Kimberley Kitching debacle. One frontbencher has said, 'It's crazy to put her in.' Albo would not endorse her— Mr Perrett: Mr Deputy Speaker— Mr LAUNDY: Sorry, the member for Grayndler would not endorse her. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: A point of order from the member for Moreton. Mr Perrett: Mr Deputy Speaker, not one minute ago you directed the minister to use correct titles— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The assistant minister has corrected himself. Mr LAUNDY: The member for Grayndler would not endorse her. Keep distracting, but these are the underlying truths sitting inside the factional wars of the Labor Party. The Leader of the Opposition stands up here and plays comedian for 10 minutes when at all times he is managing his own backbench to ensure his own job. The most frustrating part is that this is what cuts through outside this place, this is what you get in the front lines of Western Sydney: you get to talk about economic growth of 3.3 per cent—the highest rate since the GFC, with 180,000 jobs created in the last 12 months and 60 per cent of them for women. We have an economic plan which the Prime Minister keeps standing up and talking about. There are the free trade agreements. Reid has a strong local Chinese community, and we have young Chinese Australians who are opening up businesses or partnering with local businesses in Reid and employing other Australians as they start to export to China. That is where the 180,000 jobs created are coming from—the economic plan. And $195 billion will be spent on defence over the next 10 years, with 54 new naval vessels. In the six years of the previous government, there was not one. My personal favourite—I am biased because I am one of the ministers responsible—is the National Innovation and Science Agenda. We heard Minister Hunt today congratulate the prize winners from last night. There is a $200 million CSIRO fund to work with SMEs—my passion—to partner with them and to commercialise science, to take it to market; to take the concepts from institutions inside this country and commercialise them. Why? To create the growth that creates jobs. The $500 million Medical Translation Fund will work in one of our six growth centres, medical research. We are world leaders in that, but historically we have seen an exodus of our brains trust, our into intellectual property, offshore post-development. No more. Dr Freelander interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I remind the member for Macarthur that he is out of this place. He is warned and if he interjects once more he will remove himself under 94(a) Mr LAUNDY: We have heard the Prime Minister talk about the last week, but in the last month there have been $11 billion worth of budget savings. There have been tax cuts for 500,000 Australians, which stops them moving into the top tax bracket. We have been fixing Labor's VET FEE-HELP mess, there is an enhanced free trade agreement with Singapore and we are supporting the CFA volunteers against the Victorian government and their union mates. Wherever you look in this country and you see a Labor government, you will see up their back the hand of their local union. The unions are the puppeteers of the puppets who sit opposite. If you want dysfunction, dysfunction thy name is Labor. We are getting on with the business of government. You will notice there has not been one laugh in my ten minutes, because I am not interested in spin—I am interested in substance. I am interested in delivering not only for the people of Reid but for the people of Western Sydney. Ms Owens interjecting— Mr LAUNDY: The plan, member for Parramatta, has delivered 180,000 jobs in 12 months—many of them in your backyard. Ms Owens interjecting— Mr LAUNDY: Unemployment has gone up—5.6 per cent. Thank you for reminding me. I did not remember that. This MPI is an absolute joke.