Shayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is interesting that the member for Wide Bay interjects. It is all words now, but there was no action for 11½ years. Where were the National Party and the coalition on the Ipswich Motorway for 11½ years? It is all rhetoric. Their response to the Ipswich Motorway can be characterised by three things: ignorance of the issue, inertia and inaction.

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