Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

It is a slush fund, and Labor have decided which projects are going to be funded. They have announced most of them. They are immune from the process and we are being asked to believe that there is some kind of credibility about what is going on. The advisory panels have been sidelined. MPs have been listing projects all night that are going to be funded. Where is the independence in the process if these members have already got the wink and the nod that their funding is going to be all right?

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