Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

We make absolutely no apologies for getting rid of the false promises and funny money that littered year after year of Liberal and National budgets. The Australian people have had a gutful of colour coded spreadsheets, bad value for money and the shambles that this lot employed when it came to infrastructure. I've already given examples, but the list goes on.

To end the waste and rorts we are closing down the egregious Urban Congestion Fund, rorted beyond belief by the former government, and we're cancelling a number of their most egregious commuter car park projects as well. The Liberals and Nationals wanted to build car parks on land allocated to affordable housing or at train stations that were being closed down. We want to invest in infrastructure that actually matters. I've got news for the National Party and the Liberal Party: that big slushy machine that you ran for years is closed. We are going to be delivering real infrastructure that delivers real economic benefits and real jobs to our regions and our cities and, you know what, we will actually deliver.