Senate debates

Thursday, 16 November 2023

Questions without Notice

Infrastructure

2:47 pm

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

Unfortunately, Senator McKenzie, just because you say it doesn't mean it's true. Again, to give you one example from Queensland, take the Bruce Highway, the backbone of our state. What had been promised under your government was close to $10 billion in funding for the Bruce Highway. How much is being committed by the Albanese government? About $10 billion, exactly the same amount of money. That is the case right across the country. Even with this change towards 50-50 funding, which has traditionally applied in relation to federal funding of infrastructure projects—

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