Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable member has clearly overlooked the fact that Western Australia is a great exporting state and that it needs the infrastructure to get its exports to the market and to the port, and the Perth Freight Link is doing that. The honourable member seems to overlook the fact that strong support for the Perth Freight Link is coming from the business community. The business leaders in Perth recognise that it is going to give the economic infrastructure that that state needs. The honourable member should remember too that Western Australia has carried an enormous part of the export burden for Australia. It is a state that has had the benefit of a big boom, but it is going through tough times. It needs strong investment in its economic infrastructure, and that is what we are delivering.

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