Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The government is investing over $6.5 billion in vital road and rail infrastructure in Queensland with the nation-building program. This is almost double what the opposition spent over the same period of time when in office. Take, for example, the Bruce Highway. The opposition only spent $900 million on it, whereas the Rudd government is investing $2.2 billion on the highway. On the notoriously dangerous stretch of road from Curra to Cooroy the Rudd government has committed $200 million towards this project to undertake necessary planning and design work as well as to progress with land acquisition. In contrast, when the coalition was in government it spent only $3.22 million on this same stretch of road, a measly $3.22 million was all the local member—(Time expired)