Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

And Western Australia as well, as my honourable friend the member for Kooyong reminds me. There is also the opportunity, if the South Australian government can get its act together, for them to put together a business case to access the rail funding for the Adelaide link project across South Australia. All of this is underpinned by the $1.6 billion commitment to the North-South Corridor, the Darlington interchange, the Torrens Road project, the Northern Connector and the Flinders Link rail project, which is in the member for Boothby's electorate.

The Turnbull government is delivering yet again for South Australia in infrastructure in this budget to the tune of $3.1 billion. If I could just get a plug in for my particular area of defence industry, this government has committed more to South Australia in investment in defence industry and infrastructure than any government in the history of the Commonwealth. It is arguably the largest commitment in defence industry and defence of any state in the nation since 1901. There is $85 billion of naval shipbuilding and infrastructure going on at Osborne, creating 5,000 jobs directly and 20,000 jobs indirectly.

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