Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We are asking the Victorian government to heed the advice that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for McMahon gave it—that Labor honours contracts. That is what we are asking. Even the Leader of the Opposition believes that the East West Link should be built because he has written not one but two submissions saying that the East West Link should be built, and this government believes and the Leader of the Opposition believes that all of those clogged arteries of the city of Melbourne should be unclogged. That is what we are saying to the incoming Victorian government: honour the contracts that were duly entered into by the legitimate government of Victoria; do what your federal colleagues advise you to do; do what the Leader of the Opposition thinks is the right thing to do—

Ms Owens interjecting—

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