David Gillespie (Lyne, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Chaffey Dam has an extra 38 gigalitres. And there are the Tasmanian Irrigation Schemes, whether it is the Southern Field dam and the irrigation associated with that or the Swan Valley Irrigation Scheme with the Melrose Dam, or the Duck Irrigation Scheme at the Mill Creek Dam. In Victoria there is the MacAlister irrigation system, and there is the South West Queensland Pipeline. In my area on the mid-North Coast there is $34 million of infrastructure being built by MidCoast Water and $10 million from the federal government building hard infrastructure, for water, for Taree and Forster and the mid-coast.

Our airport commitment means that, in my area, the regional airport for Hastings and Macleay at Port Macquarie have $1¼ million committed from this coalition government. We finally made a decision on the Western Sydney Airport, and the planning and all the logistics that will lead to it are actually being done.

The NBN: that is another $30 billion. The trouble with the members on the other side is that they talked about it for six years and they spent $6 billion but there were only 50,000 customers. Now there are 1.75 million people who can connect to it. That is a lot better. Just look at the figures for last month: there were 50,000 premises passed. There are rubbery figures all over the place from the other side, so do not believe what they say; look what they do. In their last budget, in 2013-14, they promised $3.9 billion for this current year, but we are delivering $9.18 billion. In 2011-12, they promised $6.1 billion, but they only delivered $3.6 billion. So do not go on what they talk about or what they say, just look at what they do. We are actually delivering on infrastructure.

For aged-care infrastructure in my electorate we are getting extra nursing homes in Foster, Gloucester and down at Tea Gardens. We are actually building stuff and matching our rhetoric with delivering results.

Honourable members interjecting—

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