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

That's another very good question, Senator Green. Again, I don't know what it is about colour-coded spreadsheets that sets the National Party off. Is there something you're ashamed of there? New South Wales is an example of how bad it can get when the coalition is in power, both federally and at a state level. Instead of nation-building infrastructure you get car parks that can't be delivered, and in the case of the great Great Western Highway, instead of coordinated and strategic infrastructure investment, we experienced the Morrison government funding two ends of a road project on the condition that the state government funded a tunnel in the middle. The only problem was that there was no money for the tunnel. So the Morrison government had two ends of a road with nothing in between.

Rob Sitch was here the other night for the ABC special, but even he would have been surprised to find a far-fetched proposal like that for an episode of Utopia. That is how the Morrison government ran. That is how the Joyce leadership of the National Party ran. We are cleaning up the waste. We are delivering extra funding for New South Wales. We are delivering more infrastructure. We are going to do what you never managed to get around to.