Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I'm happy to withdraw and to refer to the Prime Minister as the Prime Minister. A few weeks ago, we saw the Prime Minister make a big announcement, something that we know he likes to do—he's not so good on the follow-through, but he loves making a big announcement—usually with an ad ready to go. He said that he was going to have 15 major projects around the country fast-tracked so we could get infrastructure happening and jobs happening. Guess how many of those projects are in my home state of Queensland. Guess how many projects are in the state that the Prime Minister has said delivered him his election victory last year. One. Out of 15 major projects being fast-tracked around the country, he could only find one project in Queensland that he was prepared to fast-track—and that project, the Inland Rail, is really, basically, a New South Wales-Victoria project and it doesn't go any further north than Brisbane. So there is not one project north of Brisbane that this Prime Minister and his government are prepared to fast-track. I get around regional Queensland, and I see a few of the projects that are happening—