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

Indeed, those state and territory Labor ministers, who I advised on Sunday night in a courtesy call about the infrastructure rollout—which, yes, the member for Ballarat says was on the front pages of the paper; good on the press gallery for acknowledging what a great budget it is and what an infrastructure budget it is—are also very much in favour of the infrastructure rollout we've got. Those Labor ministers, whether it was Mark Bailey in Queensland, whether it was Jacinta Allan in Victoria, whether it was Rita Saffioti or Eva Lawler, all acknowledged the projects we are building in their states or territories. Chris Steel, from the ACT, was indeed another to say, 'Thank you, well done.' That's what we are doing; we are getting on with the job of building the infrastructure Australia needs. There is no cut. The only cut I've seen this week is the haircut I got the other day!

Small business is taking advantage of all the tax incentives we are giving them. We are getting on with the job of putting in place the infrastructure Australia needs. And did I mention it before—30,000 jobs were announced in the infrastructure rollout last night. Already, our $110 billion is supporting 100,000 jobs. You could have only dreamt, Opposition Leader, of that money when you were the infrastructure minister, yet you didn't get that sort of money. You didn't have that sort of delivery. (Time expired)

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