Jim Lloyd (Robertson, Liberal Party, Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads) Share this | Hansard source

Under the strategic Roads to Recovery program and under Roads to Recovery itself, around 99 per cent of all those dollars have actually been spent on building roads. That is why we are very strongly in support of assisting councils, in many cases bypassing the states and allowing the councils to get on with delivering better and safer roads in whatever regions we can.

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