Garth Hamilton (Groom, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

more interjections—going up 34 per cent by 2040, an increase of 270 billion tonnes, but our spend on infrastructure has stopped under the 90-day review, which is now the 200-day review.

Thanks to the Schott report delivered in January, which you've been sitting on, Inland Rail now ends at a point, without a business case, on a one-lane road in a residential area. This report and the government's ridiculous support of it effectively kills off Inland Rail in Queensland.

There is a way to save it: pause Inland Rail at Toowoomba. We sit at the junction of the Gore, Warrego and New England highways, intersecting with the western rail line and right next door to Wellcamp Airport, where freight is already being delivered directly into Asia. This would save the project somewhere around $9 billion while ensuring the benefits of Inland Rail are brought into Queensland. This simple solution requires no new engineering or business cases; it simply makes sense.

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