Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

that was required to get that project underway. We have added $197 million and therefore will guarantee that this project will actually happen.

There is $146 million to the Tonkin Highway, $307 million for the Great Northern Highway, $174 million for the North West Coastal Highway, $59 million for the Leach Highway and $42 million for the Great Eastern Highway, and the list goes on. There are $3.8 billion worth of commitments to Western Australia, all fully funded and fully budgeted.

Labor, of course, also promised a number of projects—plenty of pictures—but over half of the money that they intended to supply for these projects came from the mining tax. A mining tax that has done real damage to the Western Australian economy but not raised real money. Therefore, Labor's promises were empty. They were a vacuum.

Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting—

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