Melissa McIntosh (Lindsay, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Last night the Treasurer of Australia delivered one of the most important budgets in our country's history. The budget is about jobs. As the Treasurer said, there is no economic recovery without a jobs recovery. We have a plan to create jobs, deliver infrastructure upgrades and get behind our Australian manufacturers. Last week I joined members in our community to announce that the Commonwealth government will fully fund a $127 million upgrade of Dunheved Road. Having fought to secure the initial $63½ million during the election, I am so proud that we are funding this full upgrade so we can get families in our community to work and home again more safely and quickly.

Western Sydney holds a key to a new era in manufacturing. I've been working closely with our local manufacturers to address barriers and unlock opportunities with my advanced manufacturing task force. We're working hard to get Western Sydney ahead when it comes to manufacturing. Grant Engineered, GPC Electronics, SpanSet Plustec and J Sinclair Engineering are working with me, together, to create jobs for our local community in manufacturing and to take the best of the opportunities coming for advanced manufacturing in the future.

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