Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I have opened the Barwon Heads Road Upgrade stage 1. We have commenced projects like the Huon Link Road in Tasmania, the Tanami in Western Australia, the next stage of the Jervis Bay Road intersection upgrade and the new Midland Station for METRONET in WA. And, of course, as was first announced by this Prime Minister when he was infrastructure minister, we have the Rockhampton Ring Road, which the coalition not only failed to start any work on but they didn't actually provide enough money to do it!

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You did not provide enough money to a project being delivered by the Albanese Labor government! We've reached a major milestone on our election commitment to transition Perth's buses to electric. We're nearing completion on the Nowra Bridge project in New South Wales, with all lanes now open to traffic. The Barton Highway upgrade—we remember that—now has vehicles travelling on it for the first time, with the final alignment. We've awarded the design-and-construct contracts for the Monaro Highway and we're opening the Menmuny Overpass as part of the Cairns southern access road. We're getting on with the Majors Road Interchange in South Australia and the Bridgewater Bridge is well under construction. And we're nearing completion of the Townsville Northern Access Interchanges Upgrade.

While we saw that the Liberals and Nationals were all about announcement, we are getting on with the job of actually delivering.

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