Ian Causley (Page, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I am very pleased to address the House following the member for Hunter, because I believe that, when members of the Labor Party stand up and try to protect a state government simply because it is Labor, it is not much of a debate at all. When the opposition are prepared to admit that just because you are a Labor government does not mean you do not make mistakes, then we will believe that the debate is reasonable. Most people would remember that I was for seven years a minister in the Greiner and Fahey governments in New South Wales—and guess what? In those days, the Pacific Highway was a state highway, and it still is.

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