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

The member for Bowman confirms with his interjection that there is a hit list. He says they have run out of money. That is their excuse already for making this hit list. I thank the member for Bowman for his honesty, and we will be reminding people of that. The Dampier Highway in Western Australia, the Great Eastern Highway and the Roe Highway are all funded by this government and construction of all are scheduled to commence. Are they on the hit list? They are all important infrastructure. The Great Eastern Highway and the Dampier Highway are important for developing our productivity agenda. The new Isis River bridge in the electorate of Hinkler is perhaps on the hit list. Construction is due to commence in September 2010. The upgrade of the southern approach to Cairns is perhaps on the hit list—$150 million allocated, construction expected to commence in 2011. For Calliope Crossroads near Gladstone, the upgrading of the southern approaches to Gin Gin, planning is under way and construction expected to commence in mid-2011. All of these projects are under threat because of what the opposition has said.

We know that the opposition needs to come clean about its secret infrastructure hit list. We know that important infrastructure is occurring in Darwin—$50 million for the port of Darwin, vital infrastructure development—

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