Llew O'Brien (Wide Bay, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

After Warren Truss first highlighted the need to realign the Bruce Highway around Gympie in 2006, it's my great pleasure to say that the Turnbull-McCormack government has now delivered by completing that project. I acknowledge everyone that has helped me to achieve this, particularly my local regional newspaper, the Gympie Times. The editor, Shelly Strahan, was of great assistance, and her predecessors, Michael Roser, Nev McHarg and Craig Warhurst, have been campaigning for decades to achieve this piece of infrastructure. I also thank everyone who contributed to a special book, The Case for the Cooroy to Curra Section D. The book contained a report from Scott Rowe and letters from Sergeant Steve Webb, Michael Roser and Nev McHarg, Craig Warhurst, Shelly Strahan and Carly Walker. It is a great pleasure. We know that the Labor Party did initiate section B to go around the Traveston dam. And what a disaster that was!

Other than that, they've had nothing to do with this project. Indeed, it took a coalition government to save lives on this road, something that the opposition would have no idea about.