Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise today in support of the motion moved by my learned friend. This is like a tale of two cities—a tale of two budgets. The Queensland government handed down its budget just last week. I note that the member for Oxley, whilst using a prop of a newspaper, talked about a jobs bonanza for Logan. Let me tell you, Madam Deputy Speaker, there was no such newspaper front page on the Sunshine Coast Daily. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Those opposite and the state members of the Labor Party do not care about the Sunshine Coast.

Let me talk a little bit about the two budgets in comparison. Let's look at the federal budget. It is all about jobs. The federal budget for the Sunshine Coast provided a $929.3 million upgrade between Caloundra Road and the Sunshine Motorway. That is an 80-20 split; I will give them that much. We also provided $650 million in highway upgrades south of Caloundra. Interestingly, the state Labor Party did not provide a brass razoo for upgrades to the Bruce Highway south of Caloundra. There was no mention, no nothing!

A government member: Their heads are down now! Look at their heads, they are down!

Funny about that, isn't it? On our side of the fence we also provided $182.6 million for critical safety upgrades, and another $221 million has been invested in high-risk rural parts of the highway.

Honourable members interjecting—

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