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

I thank the honourable member for Lyne for his question. I will come to the elements of the government’s investment in transport infrastructure. First of all, I go to the Roads to Recovery Program. The government is investing a record $1.75 billion in the Roads to Recovery Program and that funds local government for local roads. The second point I would make in relation to that is that the government’s investment in local roads has gone up by a quarter of a billion dollars relative to the same period under the previous government. That is the second point I would make. Thirdly, on the question of black spots, we are currently providing across the country $150 million as part of the economic stimulus plan.

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