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

Labor, of course, destroyed the East West project, with 7,000 jobs lost. The shadow minister foolishly interjected with some nonsense statistic about Victoria getting nine per cent of the road funds.

Opposition members: Eight per cent!

Well, the true figure was 19 per cent in the budget. But that was too much for Victoria! They threw away seven per cent of it—so there is only 12 per cent left—because they did not want to go ahead with the East West project.

Mr Albanese interjecting—

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