Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Oh, how sensitive they are about infrastructure construction! I would say to those opposite: with each one of these 35,000 projects across the nation, we will be there participating in each of them, including in those electorates where the local members are pretending they are not supporting them.

With respect to defence housing, I hold up this illustration of 41 new defence homes already under construction. Just two months have elapsed between the announcement of the stimulus plan and the start of construction of these homes. The Defence Housing Authority has been provided with $251 million—

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