Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

In the Liberal-National government, we understand that we need to work closely with states and territories to fast-track infrastructure where and when possible. In fast-tracking infrastructure, you create jobs, as with our recent announcement in terms of creating around 66,000 jobs. On 29 April, the Deputy Prime Minister announced that works to seal roads, build overtaking lanes, upgrade intersections and improve safety will start sooner rather than later under an agreement reached between the Australian and the Queensland governments on 22 jointly funded regional road projects worth, Senator Canavan, $185 million. These early works projects will be delivered on corridors identified under the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative, and delivering early works through this initiative will give regional Queensland communities access to new projects and of course much-needed jobs.