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

I thank the member for Mayo for her advocacy for her constituents, and her advocacy of easing traffic congestion and making sure that people get where they need to be sooner and more safely and that they get home sooner and more safely. And that's what the Liberals and Nationals have done all the way through, with a $100 billion rolling infrastructure plan. Yesterday, we added $7½ billion in new money to what we're doing. There's $625 million for South Australia, and I'll get to the specific details of your question, Member for Mayo. There was funding for 11 new projects announced in that initiative yesterday and funding for one existing project, the Goodwood and Torrens junctions project for grade separation.

But, specifically, going to the member for Mayo's question, she is no doubt very pleased with the $200 million commitment announced for the Hahndorf township improvements project. This will address, as she says, access issues from the South Eastern Freeway into the region. It's a great region. It's a great tourism region. I've been there myself. I know all too well about this particular region and I know why the member for Mayo comes to this place and advocates hard for it. The region includes the Verdun and Hahndorf townships. We've fully funded the Hahndorf Township Strategic Planning Study, which is due to be completed very soon by the South Australian government, which will detail the scope and the design of the most appropriate solution for the region—because, when this federal government does a project, we put the planning, we put the scoping, we put the detailed design into the project, not like those opposite. When they had the opportunity—

Dr Chalmers interjecting—

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