Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The state Labor government will continue to change the scope of works, because, if they have money in the bank, they are certainly not spending it on the Sunshine Coast. How about they spend money in all areas of regional Queensland, rather than just Brisbane?

I reckon that Australians across this country have got a very serious case of buyer's remorse today because they have been sold a pup. They've been sold a pup because they were told by this Prime Minister that he would be a prime minister that builds things and that he would be a prime minister for infrastructure, just like he said he was when he was the infrastructure minister in the former Labor government. But Australians are now waking up to this lot, because they know that this lot are just not prepared to spend money in regional Queensland or regional Australia. But it'll go much further than that, because this federal Labor government, at the same time as it's doing this so-called 90-day review, excluded from this 90-day review the $200 billion road project in Melbourne. How can it be that the federal Labor government can say, 'Nothing to see here. We'll just park that job aside and look after our Victorian mates,' and then crucify other states but particularly Queensland?

The good people of Queensland will have a lot to say about this in October 2024, just as they will again at the next federal election. It is absolutely unsatisfactory for this federal Labor government to have held itself out to the Australian people as being a future government for building infrastructure but then, once it got in, to announce this sham of a 90-day review. We're now at 200 days, and we're getting drip fed this little bit of disappointing information on a daily basis, like they think we're stupid. Well, I've got something to say and I reckon most of Queensland will have something to say about the cuts to infrastructure that this Labor government is meting out on Queenslanders. Queenslanders are not stupid. They will not put up with these cuts that this Labor government falsely portrayed that they would build. In the last budget they kept that $160 billion for the North Coast rail and now it looks like they are going to cut it. (Time expired)

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