Chris Hayes (Werriwa, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Again, I am happy to take the question. The member indicated last time that there was a commitment by his government to put $52 million into that project. Once again, I remind the member for Macarthur that there is a $140 million project. The agreement was entered into between the opposition at that stage and the New South Wales government to commit to an agenda of a federal contribution, on the succession of a Rudd Labor government, of $112 million into that project. I am happy to say, and no doubt the member for Macarthur sees it daily—that is, if he visits his electorate daily as he travels from Mosman to Macarthur—that this work is now well and truly on track, and it was a priority that this government—

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