Paul Neville (Hinkler, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

It will remain so until the member for Moreton and his colleagues get some serious spending into it, because they are way behind in the commitments the coalition made to that section.

As I said before, section B is not even open. Section B had to be rushed through because Labor wanted to open the infamous Traveston Dam. To open the infamous Traveston Dam they had to divert 12 kilometres of the highway. That all came to a grinding halt. Now we have the situation where that has languished for some months and has not yet been completed.

But that is only part of it. We then have another section from just south of Gympie; it is section C. We then need to bypass Gympie to Curra in the north. That is well down the track. We had it down to be done by 2020, but on Labor's timetable, as slow as a tortoise, we are not likely to see it happen.

So, don't come in here thumping your chest and saying that you have done a marvellous job on the Bruce Highway. Quite frankly you have not and you have been caught out on the figures.

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