Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources) Share this | Hansard source

Tasmania we have already started. We have $120 million worth of dams going on there. In the next couple of weeks, we will finish Chaffey Dam at Tamworth. We will finish Chaffey Dam. We started it in our term of government and we will finish it in our term of government. That is what happens when you have a coalition government that goes from merely dreaming about things to actually delivering on things. We are proud of the $5 billion that we are going to be spending to make sure that we drive that agenda forward for North Queensland, drive it forward for the Northern Territory and drive it forward for the north of Western Australia.

These are the things that we do on our side of the fence, because we never heard of Northern Australia under the Labor Party, the Greens and the Independents. It was virtually invisible under them. It took a coalition government to actually stand up and deliver for the north of Australia. That is why we put $100 million on the table—to start sealing your beef roads. As you know, member for Kennedy, we are doing that. In Roads to Recovery, we have further extensions there. These are the sorts of things that give Australia a sense of vision. These are the sorts of things that make the Australian people know that if they want to have a government that knows what it is doing, has a vision for the future and has a vision for Northern Australia, then it resides with the National Party and the Liberal Party.

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