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

I thank the member for Calare for the question. As the member knows, and as most members here know, because we put it out by email, I hold a clinic on Wednesdays. Every member, every backbencher, every minister and every shadow minister is welcome to come to my office. I've got the department secretary there, I am there and my staff are there to talk to and answer questions about projects right the way across. We do it all the time. Many members come. You've come previously as well. I'm always happy to talk to you about that.

In relation to the decision taken on the Great Western Highway—I know this is a project that the member for Calare has been talking about for some time—let's look at the facts. The project that was supported was supposed to connect the top of the Blue Mountains with the west of the divide. It was meant to include an east and west realignment to the highway and a central tunnel to connect the two ends. You can't just do both ends; you've got to do the entire corridor. The tunnel—

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