• Australian Labor Party Representative for Ballarat
• Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government (since 1 Jun 2022)
• Entered House of Representatives on 10 November 2001 — Federal election
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Questions without Notice: Budget (14 May 2026)

“I thank the member for Boothby for her question. As a South Australian, she knows and is aware of the road funding anomaly that has meant that South Australian councils, in particular, have not gotten their fair share of roads funding through the financial assistance grants. For 20 years, there has been a temporary top-up in budgets, and each and every time they've had to come to the...”

Questions without Notice: Inland Rail (12 May 2026)

“Well, I can nominate who's responsible for this debacle of a project, and that might be the person who asked me this question and some of his National Party colleagues. The Inland Rail, frankly, is an absolutely and utterly perfect example of why the National Party and their One Nation colleagues should never, ever, ever again be allowed near the Treasury coffers. This is the worst project in...”

Questions without Notice: Inland Rail (12 May 2026)

“By 2020 the cost estimate had then risen to $16.4 billion, again funded from debt. Of course, when we came to office in 2022, we inherited this project. The first thing that I was told by the Australian Rail Track Corporation, the ARTC, who all of the figures come from, was that the project would need substantially more funding to finish it, but the ARTC could not tell us how much. They did...”

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• Has spoken in 48 debates in the last year — average amongst Representatives.
• People have made 1 comment on this Representative's speeches — above average amongst Representatives.
• This Representative's speeches are understandable to an average 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 691 times in debates — well above average amongst Representatives. (Why is this here?)

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