Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The $3 billion that the Commonwealth government has committed will then come back to Canberra, and Victorians not only will lose out on the $3 billion from Canberra for new roads but will end up paying more than $1 billion in compensation to a building and construction company for a road that was never built. Even worse, if Labor is elected on Saturday in Victoria, 250 construction workers who are working on East West Link today will immediately lose their jobs. Why? Because Labor is tearing up the contract—a contract to build a more productive economy, a contract that is going to get rid of nearly two hours of travel time across Melbourne, a contract that is helping to deliver prosperity and opportunity to the people of Victoria. This is a classic and simple example. We are the people that help to create jobs in the economy. It is the coalition that helps to deliver jobs. It is the Labor Party that always costs jobs, it is the Labor Party that costs productivity and it is the Labor Party that hurts the economy.

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