Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities) Share this | Hansard source

I do thank the member for Hughes, who is a strong advocate for Western and south-western Sydney. As he rightly says, on 4 March the Western Sydney City Deal was announced by the Prime Minister together with the Premier of New South Wales and the mayors of eight Western Sydney councils, reflecting the cooperation between three levels of government.

This is a coordinated plan, designed to deliver long-term prosperity for the region. And there are multiple pillars of this plan—planning reforms and the release of land for housing over the next 20 years, and transport infrastructure so that the people living in that housing can be connected to jobs and other places they want to go. Of course, there is the Western Sydney Airport, a $5.3 billion investment; the Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan, a $3.6 billion investment in multiple roads—

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