Ivanhoe MLA Anthony Carbines told State Parliament of the things that local people want to do most as the COVID-19 recovery takes place.

“I know in my own community the very significant work being done in aged-care services to provide opportunities for families to be able to reconnect, to make ways for families to be able to get the supports that they need,” Mr Carbines told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday (Sept. 3).

“What do people want to hear about? They want to hear about what the opportunities are for them to see their parents. “They want to know what the opportunities will be for them to get back to work.”

“They want to know what opportunities there are for them to host and have customers and provide retail services in their local shopping strips.
“They want to know when they will be able to send their kids back to school.

“They want to know what other opportunities will be available to them to understand and see how the sacrifices that they are making on a daily basis will provide an opportunity to emerge from the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 with particular opportunities for people to make a greater contribution than they have already made with their sacrifices, given the many restrictions that we have in place, and the opportunity to start to roll that back, but to do so in a way that means we do not come back to these circumstances and these onerous demands that have been placed on the community at this time,” Mr Carbines said.

The Ivanhoe MLA said: “I know that people are working extremely hard in everything they do, not just our health workers and not just those medical researchers who are doing all they can to provide a vaccine, with the contributions that are being made not only here but right across the country and internationally. “