Mr Kelly, the candidate for Hughes, said that he had a ``big announcement'' when he got up to speak at the meeting, which was organised to discuss how to protest against a container hub planned for Moorebank.

He said that if elected, the Abbott government would abandon the intermodal freight terminal plan ``unless and until'' it was acceptable on five points.

Mr Kelly said that the points included noise and air pollution, traffic, light spill and house values.

He said that if residents were to be negatively impacted in any of these ways, Mr Abbott has assured him that the project would be abandoned.

``It was tough to get that commitment, but I've been pushing for it, for a while,'' Mr Kelly said.

``There's no way that this plan could not negatively affect the residents in these ways.''

He said that if he is elected and the proposal is voted on in Federal Parliament he would cross the floor to oppose his party, if they supported it.

He said that the Labor candidate for the seat, Brent Thomas has not made the same commitment.

This was when a point of order was called by one of the councillors and Liverpool Mayor Wendy Waller (Labor) told Mr Kelly not to use his speaking time to score political points.

Ms Megarrity said that the current detailed planning stage would have to continue under a Coalition Government in order to define the specific proposal about which the potential impacts could be assessed.

``He did not say that the Coalition would not build it full stop,'' Ms Megarrity said.

``On every front, all he offered was a con job, not a commitment.

``As far as the `I will cross the floor' pledge is concerned, this is a development proposal not a piece of legislation, so whilst it sounds like a very bold thing to say, the approval of this proposal would never come to the floor of the Federal Parliament.