``Last week in Parliament I moved a priority motion to discuss the problems with the lack of infrastructure across western Sydney,''

he said.

``This followed a newspaper article which stated that the Premier Kristina Keneally had said to her ALP colleagues in a caucus meeting, `Labor is doing a good job' and that `the residents of NSW are lucky to have us'.

``I believe this was a contemptuous, arrogant and smug comment and displays perfectly what is wrong with the state government.

``Even after losing the safe Labor seat of Penrith they are still in denial.

``They still believe there is nothing wrong in NSW, when in fact the opposite is true.

``We still don't have a north-west rail line, we have 3000 people waiting for elective surgery at Nepean Hospital, $500million of taxpayers' money is wasted on the inner-city metro and the Premier says we are `lucky to have this government'.

``If she truly believes this, she really is in fantasy land, because you could travel the length and breadth of NSW and you would not find one person who honestly thinks they are lucky to have this scandal-ridden state government.

``As I said, that's like saying you are lucky to have herpes.

``There's nothing lucky about that and certainly nothing lucky about having this government.''