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

I can understand why the Prime Minister sent him to the back bench, Mr Speaker. The Deputy Prime Minister suggested that the Labor Party did not support the inland railway. This is incorrect. In a speech on 18 July at the Australian Rail Summit in Sydney entitled ‘Federal Labor’s vision for rail in a national intermodal transport system’, I clearly stated that the opposition supported the inland rail link between Melbourne and Brisbane as the next logical step to build on the 2006 north-south rail corridor study report.

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