Kim Wilkie (Swan, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I have just a few comments to make. You mentioned AusLink before. I would like to point out that Western Australia pays $28 billion in taxes and gets only $24 billion back from the federal government. Even though you did increase some of AusLink’s funding for road and rail, unfortunately we still receive less than three per cent of federal rail funding and around eight per cent of federal road funding. It would be great if you could give us back a little more from the $4 billion dollars extra that we pay.

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