Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I don't thank him for his interjection but let's address it. We have been working towards making roads safer, whether it's the Bruce Highway, whether it's the Warrego Highway, whether it's the Pacific Highway, whether it's the Princes Highway. We are doing our very best to make our roads safer. And, although they always make fun of it, the construction of things such as the inland rail take a large amount of container traffic off the roads and onto rail and make the roads safer.

In the particular circumstances of how states are working with us and want to reallocate funds, that is a question that has to be addressed not only to the federal government but also to state governments—how they disburse funds. What I can say is that, if you look at the Labor Party's record, especially with owner-operator drivers in the trucking industry, they have absolutely nothing to be proud of.

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