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

The only thing that put any Queensland infrastructure projects at risk was the fact that the former coalition government did not budget for those projects, did not have business plans for those projects, did not have a single dollar in the budget and didn't have the skills and the labour needed to deliver those projects. That is why we have had to do the hard work that the coalition government was never prepared to do, to actually work out in this inflationary environment which projects can be delivered and which ones need to be paused for a period of time.

In the process we have followed through on funding for almost all the projects that were previously committed to by the former government, but there are some that need a business case to be prepared before they can be delivered. Senator Canavan, I haven't seen you out there clapping the federal government for delivering the funding that was needed for the cost increase to the Rockhampton Ring Road; I have seen you doing a lot of campaigning in scaring people that the funding wasn't there, but now that it actually is there you haven't said a thing. Get out there and get on board!