Kerry O'Brien (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Transport) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Campbell, the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. I refer the minister to the government grant of $1.5 million for the dredging of Tumbi Creek under the discredited Regional Partnerships program. Can the minister confirm that despite the approval of funding in 2004 not one cubic metre of silt has been dredged from the mouth of Tumbi Creek? Can the minister confirm that the Tumbi Creek fiasco engineered by this government has cost Wyong Shire Council ratepayers more than $400,000 so far?