Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Tourism and International Education) Share this | Hansard source

Public transport infrastructure such as stage 2 of the Gold Coast light rail is critical to the development of our cities and to linking our local communities. The Queensland government prioritised this project to the federal government, and we have agreed to provide funding to help it up and running. Stage 2 will allow people to get onto a train in Brisbane and with one change get all the way down to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast. This will also benefit more than 100,000 domestic and international visitors attending the Commonwealth Games in 2018, with stage 2 of the project connecting five competition venues and nine events to the accommodation and public transport interchanges.