Martin Ferguson (Batman, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Transport, Roads and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

With respect to the Reid Highway in Western Australia, will the minister explain to the House why the government allocated $10 million to the Mirrabooka intersection when the priority for both the councils and the state government is the Alexander intersection? Is the government also aware that projects worth $90 million out of a total of $93 million allocated to the strategic regional program in 2004 over a period of six weeks three years ago have not yet been completed? What has happened to the accountability mechanisms within DOTARS? Who is monitoring how the Commonwealth’s money is being spent? What is being done to get these projects completed or else recover the Commonwealth’s money? After all, they were announced over the six weeks of the last election campaign.

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