Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I am just outlining the reception that our record nation-building investment is getting on the New South Wales North Coast. The local mayor is quoted as saying ‘Let’s work to have town ready’. Another headline: ‘A pleasant surprise for the NRMA’. Another headline: ‘Truckies welcome plan for faster, safer road’. There were four pages on this issue. Another one: ‘State minister delighted by terrific budget result’. And ‘The cracker start and finish date is great news’. Here is what Andrew Stoner, the Leader of the New South Wales National Party said: ‘It’s great that Kempsey is finally getting some attention from government.’ After 12 years of representation from those opposite, the Leader of the National Party in New South Wales says, ‘It’s great that Kempsey is finally getting some attention from government.’ But the member for Cowper, of course, had some things to say as well. The member for Cowper said this: ‘The Kempsey bypass is long overdue.’ During 12 years in government, nothing happens. We come to office, it happens and he says that the Kempsey bypass is long overdue, once again exposing the opportunism of those opposite. They simply do not know what day it is in the coalition party room. They do not know what day it is. The member for Hume thought it was 1 June and he gave the member for Aston a pinch and a punch for the first of the month. They have no idea what day it is.

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