Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I cannot believe the Leader of the National Party has intervened, because he of course was transport minister for most of that period. In fact I recall that one day he went to Singleton to announce the Muswellbrook bypass, such is his knowledge of the local transport needs of the residents of the Hunter region. I am obviously delighted that it took a Labor government to plan the Hunter Expressway, and we had to wait for another Labor government to build the Hunter Expressway.

I have talked about local benefits. I would like to ask the minister if he could expand on the benefits of the Hunter Expressway to the efficient movement of people and freight along the eastern seaboard from Melbourne to Cairns.

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