Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

'It was in our budget'! They just can't get over the fact that they lost the election. What we are doing next year and the year after—and this is part of the issue raised in the member for Franklin's line of questioning—is increasing the Black Spots Program by $100 million in each of the next two years. So there will be $320 million in the Black Spots Program in the next two years which will target unsafe roads.

I am reasonably familiar with part of the member for Mallee's electorate—I grew up in Mildura. What we are going to do is look at the criteria to make it easier for small rural councils to get access to the program to upgrade roads. We acknowledged to achieve—

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

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