Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

of the Armadale Road was announced last month. In the member's own electorate, the 75-kilometre upgrade of the Great Northern Highway between Muchea and Wubin is currently underway, and that will make a really big difference to the people travelling those vast distances in Western Australia. We have another $385 million project for upgrading work in that area. There is $218 million for the North-West Coast Highway, and those sorts of projects will make a real difference.

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

I did hear the shadow minister interject with some suggestion that these were Labor projects, and I know we have heard this claim before. But there is a double problem with this particular claim, because these were projects that Labor intended to fund from the proceeds of the mining tax. Indeed, we have the word of the former Treasurer—when asked about what would happen if the mining tax could not raise enough money for these infrastructure projects, he said, 'Well, if we don't have the revenue from the tax, then we can't make the investment.'

Mr Albanese interjecting—

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