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

don't you start; I'll come to you in a minute—to the value of the Australian economy. It is an airport that is going to return $1.80 for every dollar of investment, an airport that is supporting 11,000 direct and indirect jobs during construction and, indeed, 28,000 jobs post construction, within five years of opening. That is significant. It's an airport Labor would never ever have built. It's the type of infrastructure that Labor never supported in six failed years of government. I remember, certainly, the last three of them. This department, of course, is taking the matter of the airport and Leppington very seriously, and it's been the subject of Senate estimates.

Let's just get on—the member for Grayndler talks about his involvement in Western Sydney airport—

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