Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

He is occasionally a fair man, there is no doubt about that! But across the country we have the Perth freight link. Just 15 minutes ago there was another attack on the Perth freight link by the member for Perth, who has the longest title of anyone in the history of opposition. The actual title of her portfolio responsibilities is longer than one page; she needs at least two pages for each media release because of that.

We have the North-South Corridor in my home town of Adelaide in my home state of South Australia. We have two projects actually happening on the North-South Corridor, which would not have happened under the previous government. There will be more to say about this in the coming weeks. We have the Toowoomba bypass, Madam Deputy Speaker Landry, in your home state of Queensland, which would not have happened but for the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Industry and Science and their dogged pursuit of the importance of this project with the Queensland government.

Of course, we have so much more to do. We are very proudly part of the Sydney Metro project. The biggest contribution that a federal government has ever made to public transport was by the Abbott government. There will be more money spent on public transport than by any previous federal government because of the Abbott government and the Asset Recycling Initiative. This is a government that does not talk about infrastructure. It does not put infrastructure money into pink batts or overpriced school roads, but it puts it into roads, into rail and into building a stronger Australia. That is why we will get a stronger economy.

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