Bruce Scott (Maranoa, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is with great pleasure that I rise on this chilly day in Canberra to speak to the Nation Building Program (National Land Transport) Amendment Bill 2009. Changing the name from AusLink to the Nation Building Program is really a name change that is unnecessary. It will add costs in terms of the signage of roads around Australia—rather than building roads around Australia. In many ways, this is just a political stunt from the Labor Party, desperate to make themselves look as though they are doing something out there, when in fact, when you look at the fine print, the devil in the detail, you find that there will be less money spent over a longer period of time than had been committed under the AusLink program by the coalition government.

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