Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Hansard source

I want to raise with the assistant minister the gap between the government's rhetoric and the reality. In relation to City Deals, there have been three proposed by the government. Two of those, Townsville and Launceston, were simply matching previous commitments that had been made by the Labor opposition, dressing them up with the same amount of funding—many months afterwards—and dressing them up as somehow being City Deals. When it comes to Western Sydney, Blacktown is not even included in Western Sydney. And there has been no substance, no advance of any real plans there, at the same time as there is, again, no funding in this budget for rail through Badgerys Creek Airport to the north and to the south, from Campbelltown up to the north-west, connecting with that western line. Because Badgerys Creek Airport will open up employment—

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