Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing and Science) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will talk about infrastructure in South Australia. Over the next four years, federal infrastructure funding in the state will plummet by 90 per cent. It will fall from $921 million to $95 million over four years. You have to remember what will happen and where that won't get spent, and that's on South Australian country roads. That's where it's not going to get spent—that's South Australian infrastructure. Yet you have the temerity to come in here and joke about it and laugh about it; you think it's a big joke. The National Party slings insults all over the place, but anybody who has lived in regional Australia knows they need the NBN, jobs, roads, hospitals and schools—the exact same things that Australians need across the country.

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