Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

That is when Patrick Conlon was looking at it. This is not a new project. This is one that was shovel-ready a long time ago. Yet we have the minister for infrastructure in here wanting golf claps because he is going to announce a project that was ready to go a long time ago!

What we have here is a government that acts politically on infrastructure. The member for Boothby basically admitted it when he talked about the Darlington interchange. That investment was just to save him. It was the most expensive election commitment we have ever seen, just to save his margin at the last election—or maybe the one before that. This is the way this government acts. It acts politically. It does not act; it reacts to things. It does not address jobs, it does not address infrastructure and it is certainly no friend of South Australia!

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