Mr RO B MITCHELL (McEwen) (17:06): It's good to be back again talking about the Address-in-Reply and all the wonderful things that have been done by this government since coming to office back in May. We were talking about GPs and the change in distribution priority area for places like Wallan and Whittlesea and other MM 2 areas of McEwen. We started doing this before the election by going to the Senate committee, where we actually had local doctors talk about the problems they were facing—the shortage of GPs and the inability to attract and retain GPs—because of the changes that the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison governments had made over the previous three years. We promised to fix that, and we did. We addressed that straight away to make sure that we could have more doctors and more opportunities for doctors in our country areas. As I said before, it ends the hypocrisy of what is being said by those opposite that we're taking doctors out of regional areas when in actual fact the decisions that we made mean that we can have more doctors in there. Part of the problem we've had with doctors also has been due to the pandemic, which is nothing unique to us. It's right across the globe and right across the nation. I was sitting there yesterday as we listened to the contrite speech by the former Prime Minister, Treasurer, health minister, Minister for Home Affairs, minister for Industry, Science, Energy and Resources and, potentially, environment minister—those titles are a bit of a mouthful!—as he claimed that he was the sole reason for getting through the pandemic. I'll say this to the member for Cook: all elections since COVID have shown that in times of need people turn to Labor governments—in South Australia, WA and Queensland and again in Victoria, as well as in May on a federal level. It just goes to show that people know that when they're in trouble they can rely on us to get things done. They can't rely on those opposite, and that's what we had. I want to turn to some thankyous for people that came out and did so much to help stop the scourge of an LNP government continuation: my family, who support me every day, especially my partner, Lisa; Carmel Barrott, who we call the McEwen matriarch—I reckon she's on par with you, Deputy Speaker Claydon, as someone you don't cross—our office team of Adam, Gareth, Jeni, Cath, Josh, Kobe and Rod; and to our pre-poll warriors, like Deb, who stood there every single day. Every single day she had to put up with the member for La Trobe and the member for Hume coming down there, while all the time they were hiding the power prices and sitting there saying, 'Power prices will be cheaper under an LNP government', something they've never apologised for. They've never apologised for deliberately hiding this— Mr Hogan: Try to speak for one minute without doing a sledge. Just try it! Mr ROB MITCHELL: Well, it's hard, because you give us so much to sledge about. Let's face it: incompetence, rorts, corruption—that's all it is. Mr Hogan interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): Order! We had a discussion only minutes ago—you might not have been present, Member for Page—about the interjections across the chamber. Mr Hogan: I'm done, Deputy Speaker. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: That would be much appreciated. I give the call back to the member for McEwen. Mr ROB MITCHELL: Thank you. I agree wholeheartedly with the member for Page. He is done. He is cooked, as we say in this day and age. I thank our pre-poll warriors: Deb, Wendy, Sasha and Dylan. We had 150 supporters come out on election day, including branch members, unionists and community members. In fact, we even had two members of the Liberal Party. That's how much it meant to people, to get rid of that mess that was the former government. I thank our central support through the state ALP and national ALP: Chris Ford, Nicola Castleman and Jet Fogarty. I thank Young Labor, including a man we call the Stig—he was there; that's young James McDonald—and his dedicated team. They would get up in the morning and letterbox drop, and do everything that needed to be done. Thanks to my friends in the trade union movement, the TWU Vic Tas Branch and the CFMEU. To Muhammad and the AEC team in McEwen: thank you for everything you did. At times it was testing, but they worked hard and delivered a fantastic, clean, open result and kept communication going so well. I also want to thank—this might brighten up the member for Page—the leaders of both major parties for coming to my electorate during the campaign. I say this, particularly, because no matter which leader came I have no doubt it delivered votes to the Labor Party. We are now in the middle of working to build a better future, something Australians can now be proud of—a government that works for them, not for themselves. I am humbled and grateful to the people of McEwen for putting me here again. I'll guarantee the same as I have done at every election: every promise we make, we deliver on. We've done that. Compare that to the record of those opposite. Every promise they've made, they've broken. Now it's up to us to continue cleaning up the mess that we've been left with from the former government.