Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

That is a long time to wait and to sit on your hands and do nothing. That is exactly what we are now getting as a further promise from this government. What the members for Blair and Ryan and this government are promising is that they will spend $2.3 billion of your hard-earned money, but they will make you wait another five years at least before you are allowed to use the road they want to provide you—five more years on the Ipswich Motorway, five more years at least in the traffic jams, with the safety issues and everything that we have been waiting for.

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