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

In last year's budget, the government announced a $50-billion plan to build the infrastructure that Australia needs for the next century, and this budget delivers the second instalment in that program with funding for road projects right across the nation already creating tens of thousand of jobs, building the kinds of projects we will need to move traffic around our cities, increasing the economic capacity of our freight routes and building safer roads. Projects like WestConnex, NorthConnex, Gateway North, South Road, the Perth Freight Link project are all major projects that are making a real difference in our capital cities—all of our capital cities except Melbourne, where the Victorian government have decided they do not want to build the biggest road project in this state. They ripped up the contract and have got nothing to put in its place. But in other states, we are getting on with the job of building the roads for the 21st century. One of the most exciting announcements—

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