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

I rise today to speak about a transparency issue that I'd like to see the government act on. This is a transparency issue which has been put forward by the Australian Automobile Association: that the data that every state and territory holds on the state of their roads be released. All roads in every state and territory are ranked, through an audit, from one to five, and it means that, when governments are taking decisions about whether road funding should be allocated, those decisions should be taken based on the state of roads.

This isn't occurring, but the government said before the last election that it would see this happen. It was a commitment given by the Albanese Labor government to make this information available and to require states and territories to release it. The only way, at the moment, you can get this data is through FOI requests, and that's simply not good enough. What we're seeing is the road toll go up and the state of our roads deteriorate. We have to fix this. Shining the light of transparency on the state of our roads is the only way to do this, and I ask the Albanese Labor government to honour this commitment.