Kate Hulett

You can't use something so basic as that as an electoral hook, I think.

I said that to a group once about, it was an example like that, and I saw a woman a little bit later in the week and she said, I can't stop thinking about that idea of bare minimum of what the basic that we should hope for is not even being met.

And so when we get this, well, thank you so much for the crossings and kids aren't going to get killed anymore.

And I think we're the richest state in this wealthy country and we've had back-to-back surpluses and yet we're still struggling.

dreaming of a safe crosswalk and for me that's not good enough and I think when you start talking about that with people they're like oh yeah you're right that's not good enough we love Australia you know we go abroad and we rave about it but often what we rave about is the stuff that we don't have a hand in the beaches the forests the landscape

Thank goodness we've got those things because we're not raving so much about our architecture or our schools or the things that we have a hand in.

And I want to see more of that, you know.

I want to have a place that people come to visit because it's so incredible.

The next election was five weeks after.

Oh.

So state, the federal elections every three years, the state elections every four years.

So they don't often marry up.

But this year they did.

Yeah, exactly.

I really struggled with it actually because state I could get because, you know, I walk around and I could talk about the stuff that we could all see and it was more tangible.

But federal just felt so...

How many votes did you?

It would have been like 600.

If 600 people changed their order on the ballot, I would have been a federal member for Fremantle.

I would have been a FIFO to Canberra.