Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Well, it is a road. It is strategically important. And a truck driver can drive 140 kilometres west of Toowoomba and arrive at the Port of Brisbane without a set of traffic lights. That's delivery. That's what the Liberals and Nationals do. When it comes to the Roads of Strategic Importance, when it comes to blackspot funding, when it comes to great northern roads, when it comes to the Beef Roads program, we are getting on and building them. Those opposite, when they had six years of opportunity to do it, just talked about it.

Mr Rob Mitchell interjecting—

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