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

I thank very much the member for Nicholls for that question. In this budget we are delivering billions of dollars in new infrastructure investment right the way across this country, including in our regions. In your home state of Victoria, we are putting a $150 million into the Maroona to Portland rail line, something that those opposite have been talking about for ages. I know the member for Wannon is going to say, 'Thank you very much for that investment,' because that is a project that is incredibly important to regional Australia.

We are also delivering over a billion dollars in our election commitments—construction underway—in projects across the country in our regions. I have finalised the assessments for the Growing Regions Program and the regional partnerships program and I look forward to making announcements shortly.

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