A NEW Liberal MP has called for government to stay out of business and stick to "fundamental" matters like national security.
David Coleman, the first Liberal to hold the southern Sydney seat of Banks, used his first parliamentary speech to demand fewer constraints on business.
Mr Coleman, who has run internet companies, said governments didn't help companies make better products, or sell them more effectively.
He said business generally didn't think much about government - until it imposed unworkable constraints or forms to be filled in.
Business didn't expect government to fix everything, but didn't expect it to make things worse either.
Mr Coleman criticised high taxation, saying many projects would have gone ahead if it hadn't been for tax.
"Less tax means more investment," he said.
He also warned against the "dead hand" of debt which governments often found alluring.
Mr Coleman briefly left his main theme to call for an Australian head of state.
And despite his dislike of governments, he did call for government help in his electorate to clean up the river and make the streets safer.
His speech ended to a standing ovation from an army of supporters who almost filled one side gallery.
If Mr Coleman was ending a Labor tradition in one electorate, Sharon Claydon was extending one in Newcastle, which she said was the only federation seat to have been continuously held by one political party.
Claydon is a fifth generation Novacastrian who worked for nearly 10 years in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia - as a domestic, gardener, stock-camp cook and jillaroo.
Most of her first speech was a hymn of praise for Newcastle - its university and other research institutes, its arts scene, its innovation and its sporting teams.
And she ripped into the NSW government's plans to sell the profitable Port of Newcastle, "hawking it off to the highest bidder".
"It's envisaged that the sell-off, the 99-year lease of the world's busiest coal terminal, will bring in upwards of $700 million," Ms Claydon said.
"Of which the state government plans to generously invest less than half, just $340 million, in the Newcastle area, regardless of actual sale price.
"Our assets are being stripped, our revenue streams being removed."
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