Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Okay; I will just address this.

Mr Briggs interjecting—

You did actually ask me, and I am happy to answer. It is absolutely true that we did not believe the Roe Highway should be built. In fact, we determined that it was a massive waste of infrastructure funds and that the Fremantle container port needed to be moved to an outer harbour. Indeed, we did a comprehensive freight network review, a very public process that involved all the government agencies, industry, communities, anyone that had an interest, any stakeholder in this process. We made a determination that the planning required us to build a new container terminal down in Cockburn Sound. For the past seven years, the Barnett government has sat and done absolutely nothing about that. With this hastily-cobbled-together, secretive Perth Freight Link, we are going to do bits of this road, add capacity to this road, but, unfortunately, in the final kilometre or so there is actually going to be no additional work done. So what we are doing is creating—

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