Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

What I can advise is that, for the Midland Highway, we, the Commonwealth government, the Australian government, provided $400 million out of a total of $500 million. It's going to provide 235 jobs—

An honourable senator: In Tasmania?

in Tasmania. For the freight rail revitalisation, we provided $59.8 million out of a total of $119 million. It's under construction, with 200 jobs. For the Hobart Airport Interchange it is $24 million out of $30 million. It's going to provide—it hasn't started construction—for a total of 360 jobs. But every one of these infrastructure projects has to look at Indigenous procurement and Indigenous employment as a fundamental tenet of planning all of these very important infrastructure investments.