Darren Chester (Gippsland, National Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question, because this is a government—the Turnbull-Joyce government—which is getting on with the job of delivering right around Australia. We have a $50 billion infrastructure investment program right around Australia: in Perth, in Melbourne, in Sydney, in Brisbane and right throughout regional Australia through our regional highway programs, and in our small rural and remote towns as well. It is a $50 billion infrastructure investment program which is changing lives and saving lives.

It changes lives, a project like Roe 8, the Perth Freight Link project. It will deliver freight in an efficient way to the port. It will improve safety for the community of Perth and the broader Western Australian community in terms of getting a number of heavy vehicles, which are a great cause of concern for the local community, off the suburban streets.

The Australian government has committed in the order of $1.2 billion to the Perth Freight Link project. We are getting on with the job right throughout Australia: in Western Australia, in Victoria, in New South Wales, in Queensland—

See this speech in context