John McVeigh (Groom, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Last Friday saw the signing in Toowoomba of the intergovernmental agreement on Inland Rail by the Deputy Prime Minister, representing the Commonwealth government, and Minister Mark Bailey from the state Labor government, representing that state government. It was a great day indeed. I note the member for Lyne raised some of the statistics around Inland Rail, particularly in the state of Queensland. Some $7 billion will be invested in our state in this nation-building project—7,200 jobs for Queensland. Many of those will be in my electorate in the Toowoomba region. I raised with the Deputy Prime Minister and the state minister, most respectfully, two key issues that I will continue to campaign on as this project comes to fruition. First of all, any large infrastructure project has impacts on landholders—

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