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

While I was in the Territory I also announced the $77 million Northern Territory Roads Package, which Labor had never funded and which will provide significant upgrades to the major roads of the Territory, and then $90 million to the Regional Roads Productivity Package. Labor is going to claim that this is its own, but in reality they did not spend any of it. The projects that they announced like the Santa Teresa Road and the Port Keats Road were not funded. I visited the Santa Teresa Road and not a thing was done. Nothing had happened. But with Chief Minister Giles I was able to announce the start of construction on that project and the Port Keats Road and $90 million of major roads upgrading in the Territory. We are getting on with the job. We are delivering for the Territory and the rest of Australia the roads network of the 21st century, roads they deserve that Labor never delivered.

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