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

Just last week, the Leader of the Opposition announced his 10 projects that he was going to fund around the country. He mentioned the Bruce Highway, but what he must have forgotten was that, when they were in government, they actually tried to slow down the progress of upgrading the Bruce Highway. They demanded that the states, instead of paying 20 per cent of the cost, would have to pay 50 per cent of the cost. As a result, projects simply would not have happened. And, at the last election, their commitment to the Bruce Highway was $2 billion less than what the coalition had promised.

So here is, on the one hand, the Leader of the Opposition saying he is going to speed it up; but, when they were in government, they slowed it down. There are at least 30 projects on our list to build and to undertake on the Bruce Highway that were not on the opposition's list, and they clearly are not there now, because they did not provide the funds that are necessary to deliver them.

Mr Albanese interjecting—

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