House debates

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Questions without Notice

Nation Building Program

3:14 pm

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

I thank the member for Canberra for her question. Whilst we have been getting on with properly costed proposals with proper time lines and actually beginning infrastructure development in roads, rail, ports, as well as the NBN rollout, what we have seen in recent times is not quite that.

The Leader of the Opposition went along to Tasmania last week promising $400 million, a repeat of the promise in 2010 for the Midland Highway. He could not even name the highway correctly, but it is a $3 billion project. So, he said there was $400 million set aside—

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