Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

What a class act the member for Maranoa is. From all of us on the Labor side, we wish him all the very best in his retirement, and we wish his family well too. The member for Maranoa is a terrific bloke, and we farewell him tonight.

Last night's budget was the third budget in a row where the Liberals have abandoned the people of Logan on the M1. In their three years in office, the LNP have completely failed to allocate a single cent to easing congestion on the Ml. For years, the local Liberals have ranted and raved about that freeway. The member for Forde made it one of his key election issues in 2013 and the Prime Minister has heard from locals about the severe problems there. But last night, the Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the member for Forde confirmed for people in Logan what many of them already suspected: the LNP do not care about the needs of the people in Logan City.

They do not care about our infrastructure priorities, they do not care about the severe congestion that affects local families and businesses and they do not care that Infrastructure Australia has put fixing the congestion on the M1 on their national priority list. They have done nothing on the M1 in three years.

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