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

I might firstly address the Perth Freight Link additionally as the member for Perth, who is obviously not that interested in the questions she asked, leaves. It is a vital project that fixes the mistakes that were made by the former Western Australian government who tried to build over the corridor that was actually protected to build this project in the future as the Deputy Speaker well knows.

The minister who of course approved and did that was in fact the member for Perth, so Perth has got some of the biggest congestion issues across the country, because that person was the planning minister in that state for some eight years. That is exactly why Perth is now dealing with this disastrous situation. The Perth Freight Link is frankly not only just overdue; it is years overdue. It is a disgrace that that member who is now in the federal parliament—

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