Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question and note so many of the projects. We can go to Tasmania and the Scottsdale Irrigation District. We can start in Gippsland with the Macalister Irrigation District. We can go to roads such as the Hume Highway, the Pacific Highway or the Bruce Highway. We can go to North Queensland and say that the Hells Gate Dam business case will be back in early next year. We can go to Rookwood Weir and actually see us building it. We can go to the Inland Rail—1,716 kilometres—and talk about how that is going to be the corridor of commerce to drive ahead regional areas. Or we can talk about the business plan that we've currently got on the table for the Gladstone to Toowoomba link. All these things are merely a sample. If we go to Western Australia we can see the massive amounts that we are currently putting into road infrastructure, right to the very north into the Kimberley—the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been poured in there. We can go to the defence infrastructure of Darwin or the defence infrastructure of Rockhampton.

There has, without a shadow of a doubt, been massive investment from The Nationals, which is solely the only party that has regional representatives—and also the Liberal Party, which has so many representatives of their own. (Time expired)

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