Last Wednesday, Mr Rudd made his sixth visit to the Macarthur electorate since the last federal election campaign but every visit has been to Campbelltown and none to suburbs in the Camden local government area.

On the last two occasions (the February community cabinet and a jobs forum last week), the Advertiser tried to speak with Mr Rudd on behalf of residents in the Camden end of the Macarthur electorate but was denied access by Mr Rudd's media advisers.

Last week it was an attempt to ask Mr Rudd how he would persuade swinging voters from areas such as Harrington Park and Mount Annan to stick with him at the next election in light of the rising national debt.

But with no access to the Prime Minister, the Advertiser instead asked the nearest Labor representative, Werriwa MP Chris Hayes, why Camden had been ignored.

Mr Hayes said the area hadn't been ignored at the jobs forum in Campbelltown and said he had personally invited the Narellan and Camden chambers of commerce and Mayor Chris Patterson.

The Advertiser then asked Mr Hayes if Camden was on the Labor Party's radar when it came to winning Macarthur.

``We're certainly trying to ensure that the south-west of Sydney as a whole is appropriately represented as a voice in the Federal Parliament,'' Mr Hayes said. ``And, yes, we clearly have our eyes on Macarthur.''

After last week's Campbelltown visit for a jobs forum, the Prime Minister's office criticised the NSW Government's decision to delay the South West Rail Line project.

Mr Rudd's spokeswoman said the Federal Government was ``disappointed'' with the decision last year to cut the new Glenfield-Leppington line from the State budget, without confirming it would ever go ahead.

``For our part, we've doubled the federal investment in the nation's road and rail infrastructure and become the first Federal Government to state a willingness to invest in metropolitan public transport infrastructure,'' the spokeswoman said.

Work on the $1.6-billion project was to have started later this year but it became one of the casualties of the state mini-budget cost-cutting frenzy in November. Instead, work to advance just stage one the $856-million upgrade of Glenfield station of the two-staged project has gone ahead.

A spokeswoman for NSW Premier Nathan Rees said stage two would be influenced by housing developments in the area.