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

Of course my department and the government will cooperate with the Auditor-General's investigations, but I am surprised that the opposition would raise this job-destroying decision of the Victorian Labor government at a time when we are desperately trying to boost our economy through substantial investment in infrastructure and to get those projects moving as quickly as we possibly can to provide jobs for people whose task building some of the new mining infrastructure in our country is coming to a close. We need to provide those jobs and big projects like the East West Link were significant parts of that plan.

Labor is walking away it seems from this major job-creating scheme. Labor is walking away from 7,000 jobs. We want to revolutionise the movement of traffic around the city of Melbourne. They now seek to criticise those who want to get on with the job.

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