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

about what it means for the ACT. As you've noted, Ms King has made the statement that there may be some provision for smaller jurisdictions which have funding constraints. Obviously, those kinds of details will need to be worked through with the particular jurisdictions, and I'd be happy to talk with you further about that as those details are ironed out.

We know it pains the National Party, and that's why they're complaining now. All of those illusory projects that were never actually going to happen—they just looked really good on a spreadsheet, especially if they were coloured National Party green—were the flavour of the month, and in fact the decade, for the National Party. Do you know what? They were never going to be delivered. There was never the funding to deliver them and there were never the skills to deliver them. Now we have a government that's actually serious about delivering an infrastructure program—serious about investing in nationally significant infrastructure projects, whether they be in the ACT or anywhere else—rather than filling out spreadsheets with election commitments that could be made but were never, ever going to be delivered.