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

We are ready to continue to talk to Victoria about what projects might be able to get going in that state. Even if the state government does not want to be involved in the biggest projects in that state, the reality is that many of these big projects cross governments. We did not rip up the contracts that the previous government had signed; we went on building and completing them whereas Labor rips up the project and has got nothing to replace it.

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