We have now finalised the transition of the Northern Beaches Hospital to the public health system, bringing the facility into public hands and correcting one of the worst privatisation mistakes in NSW History.

The deal, entered into by the former Coalition Government eight years ago, left the Northern Beaches Community saddled with a model that prioritised private profits over patient care.

Elouise and Danny Massa have been tireless advocates for the facility being brought into public hands following the tragic death of their two-year-old baby, Joe Massa.

We’ve been clear. Privatisation does not work. It puts profit before people, which is especially dangerous in healthcare.

That’s why we’ve banned future privatisation of acute healthcare in NSW and put Northern Beaches Hospital back into public hands.

We are working to rewrite the wrongs of the previous Government and make that fix permanent.

I want to thank Elouise and Danny Massa. Nothing can undo what they’ve been through, but their courage in pushing for change means other families won’t have to experience the same heartbreak.

This hospital should have been publicly run from the day it opened.

But I want to reassure the community, thanks to Joe’s Law, our public hospitals are protected from future Liberal privatisation.

In another step away from the Liberals' privatisation mess, we have now cut the ribbon on the first toll-free motorway in a decade.

Just like our hospitals, our busiest motorways were handed over to private operators by the Liberals, piling on another needless expense to our already struggling families during a cost-of-living crisis.

Locally, the Liberals put a toll on the M5 East, locking us into contracts until 2060, slugging drivers with a new toll on a road they previously used for free and pushing thousands of cars and trucks onto our local road network.

When we came into Government, we committed to ending the tollmania and are working hard to undo the damage of twelve years of privatisations from the former Liberal Government.

Shockingly, this is the sort of failed privatisation agenda the Liberals and Nationals are refusing to rule out, less than a year from the next election.