Luke Howarth (Petrie, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I bet you, Deputy Speaker Vasta, that the member for Moreton did alright under the coalition too! I don't know how he's going, but Queensland is missing out under the Albanese Labor government.

Let me talk about Linkfield Road. Six years ago, when Malcolm Turnbull was Prime Minister, we funded 80 per cent of that, to get that built. We've got a local member up there who's now been made the transport minister—a bloke called Bart Mellish, the member for Aspley. The bloke's done nothing in six years. Linkfield Road has been hit over and over again by trucks that are heading along Gympie Road to get to the Bruce Highway. This should have been built, and the Palaszczuk-Miles government have just not done it.

There's a whole lot of other infrastructure programs as well—not just Linkfield Road but other bridges like the Gateway Motorway upgrade between Bracken Ridge and Pine River; that hasn't been done. The Beams Road overpass also hasn't been done. There's no new money for that. The Miles Labor government were supposed to start that in 2021, when Annastacia Palaszczuk was still the Premier, and there's been nothing under the Miles government. It still hasn't started three years later, after they stuck it up on a billboard saying that it would start in 2021. In 2024, it still hasn't been done. This is an absolute debacle from Labor governments in Queensland and all around the country.

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