Ted O'Brien (Fairfax, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I, like my Team Queensland LNP colleagues, am proud to be part of a government that is investing record amounts of money into infrastructure in Queensland. But we can't afford to be victims of our own success, and this is why we continue to prosecute the case for our state. One of the projects that we are going after is a proposal for fast rail that would connect Brisbane through Moreton Bay, up through the Sunshine Coast. This is a bold and transformative project, and right now it is one of 11 proposals in front of the federal government seeking co-funding for a business case for fast rail so that we can then put our hands in the kitty for the $10 billion National Rail Program.

No decision has yet been made, but I stand today to say thank you, not just to my LNP colleagues, the Team Queensland crew, but to our state colleagues, to the mayors of Brisbane, Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa. If we continue to unite and work together, we could get this job done.

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