Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I can also confirm that funding for the Traralgon West Sports Complex was announced by the government on 20 June. This is an example of how the number of projects formally announced by the government post budget will continue to increase week by week as the due diligence process is completed and as discussions are held with proponents and potential other funding sources.

This is a government doing the right thing—making sure that taxpayers’ money that is going to be spent will deliver the outcome that is expected. We could remember the $400,000 that was paid to the Indigo Cheese Company—the cheese factory whose doors were in fact closed, with $22,000 being paid to them three months after the closure. We could remember the half a million dollars that was given to the Mareeba wildlife park about a month and a half before it went into receivership.