Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

It is a pleasure to rise to speak about an issue that is very important to all Gold Coasters, and that is the funding of the M1. The reason that this is an important issue is because the M1 has proven to be, for many years now, a thorn in the side of the city. In principle, this is because we have a lot of traffic on one of the key roads that runs between Brisbane and Sydney; in fact, the M1 has become heavily congested over a number of years now because there have not been suitable investments by the Gold Coast City Council—

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