Sussan Ley, Member for Farrer responds to BCB News election 2025 questions

What are the most pressing opportunities and challenges facing our electorate today, and what role do you see yourself playing in addressing them?

So many people I talk to across Farrer feel they are going backwards or getting poorer. I want – Australia needs - our agricultural communities to thrive.

We desperately need to address the cost of living to get the whole country back on track.

Can you give an example of how you have helped others, in the past?

90 percent of my job is assisting people with problems they urgently need to fix.

If I had to reflect on more recent examples, it’s helping some of our most vulnerable negotiate with the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

It is so challenging facing up to a large, complex and changing bureaucracy such as the NDIS. I hope in some small way I’ve been able to make that path a lot smoother.  

What is your top priority – the job you will tackle first - if elected?

There are three key concerns across the electorate which are equal in importance.

1 Ending water buybacks and bringing balance back to the Basin Plan.

2 Attracting more local GPs and investment in our vital rural health services.

3 Restoring targeted mobile phone blackspot funding which has been starved of funding by Labor.

Describe your own personality and why it would make you the ideal person to form Government.

From the day I emigrated to Australia, I fell in love with the land and its people, and that has driven me since both in life and in this job.

Canberra is a very long away from who and what we are.

Every day I make it my goal of putting forward – and fighting for - the interests of rural Australians.