Long serving Member for Monash Russell Broadbent said getting the two major parties - the Liberal Nationals Coalition and the Labor Party - to commit $60 million to a quick start on planning a new West Gippsland Hospital would be at the top of his agenda if re-elected.

Mr Broadbent is standing as an independent candidate after failing to win Liberal Party re-endorsement for the upcoming election and for more than 12 months has sat in parliament as an independent.
He held Monash, previously known as McMillan, from 1990-1993, 1996-1998 and from 2004 until now.
Mr Broadbent said as an independent he had also won the major parties' support for $10 million to tackle coastal erosion at Phillip Island, $1.5 million to rebuild the Fish Creek football clubrooms that were destroyed by fire and funding to plan an arterial road network to solve Warragul and Drouin's traffic congestion problems.
He said he'd also secured $14.5 million federal funding towards the cost of Baw Baw Shire's planned new library and cultural and connection centre in Warragul.
Describing himself as being a controversial member, including crossing the floor on one occasion to vote against the Howard Liberal government and "standing up on a number of other issues" he said if re-elected he would be "far more than a squeaky wheel for the majors (parties)".
He said he supported the Liberal Party's policy to reduce the excise charged on fuel that would have a significant impact on cost of living pressures, detailing how fuel costs impacted every point of the supply chain for essential products people and families needed.
On housing supply Mr Broadbent stressed the first priority was to "reduce enormously" the number of immigrants, including overseas students, coming to Australia each year as well as measures to enable ordinary people to invest in housing.
He does not support nuclear power generation unless it has community support but believes coal fired energy generation should continue and moratoriums lifted on gas exploration and drilling.
Reckless renewables are driving up costs for people, he claimed.
Mr Broadbent wants to see more done to recruit young people to the defence forces, offering free tertiary education and training for a wide range of professions the services require, and to improve their care after leaving the defence force.
He said voters should ensure The Greens party was not part of a future government and allocation of preferences would be critical to the result of the election stating his concern that many people, especially younger voters, were not educated about the basics of Australia's political system and the implications of preferences.
Mr Broadbent said he was running as a "truly independent" candidate, refusing donations and personally funding his campaign.
I'm sick of the major parties not delivering on what they say, he added.