Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

That was promised three years ago, before the last election, by your party and nothing has happened for a couple of years. It was committed to by the coalition government. There is one thing: you are building a radar out at Mount Isa as a result of pressure brought on the government through the Senate estimates process on the running down of the Bureau of Meteorology funding. So there is practically nothing for North Queensland in the budget.