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

We just had a version of history, but what we did not hear in this whole history was the fact that the Perth Freight Link—or, in essence, the Roe 8 and then the link into Fremantle Port—has actually been on the books in WA since the 1950s. This has been discussed since the 1950s, and the reason we now have to consider the tunnel option that the Western Australia government is pursuing—and I congratulate Minister Nalder on the work he is doing on this—is that the member for Perth, as planning minister, sold off the corridor. That is the reason we have to go underground, and it is going to cost millions and millions of dollars more. The member for Perth, the worst planning minister in the history of Western Australia, sold off the corridor. That is exactly why we have to do this.

This MPI today, given to her by the office of the Leader of the Opposition, is all about defending her record when she was Minister for Planning and Infrastructure in Western Australia.

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

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