Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The next time the parliament sits it's going to be for the handing down of the budget. We've seen members of the government come into this place with their Expenditure Review Committee folders. They're going through them. I want to use this opportunity to remind the government of what the people of Wannon want to see in the budget in May. Their No. 1 priority is for the government to restore the $40 million they ripped from our roads in the October budget. It's one of the most shameful decisions I've ever seen. I have asked the Prime Minister to come down and drive on our roads, so he can understand the heartbreak, the trauma, the despair that people are facing as they drive on our roads daily in the knowledge that the government ripped $40 million from our roads.

We saw a winter like we haven't seen before. We've seen the roads devastated. They weren't in great shape. And now they need extra funding into them. So in the budget in May the government needs to restore that $40 million of funding as a priority. If they don't then Prime Minister Anthony Albanese needs to come down and drive on those roads and explain why he has ripped $40 million from our roads.