Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I do thank the member for Robertson for her question and I do appreciate her interest in the fact that the Premier of New South Wales, I and the Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development came together yesterday to announce that the missing link between the M2 at Pennant Hills and the expressway at Hornsby was finally going to be built. Construction will begin within 12 months at least, possibly by the end of this year, and within five years this long-overdue part of our national road system will be completed.

This is good news for the member for Robertson. It is good news for the member for Dobell. It is good news for the member for Bradfield because his electorate will no longer be consumed by traffic. It is even good news for the member for Paterson because people will be able to drive from Newcastle to Melbourne without going through a single traffic light. And, yes, the long-suffering member for Berowra—

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