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

Thank you, and it is an open and transparent process and I am happy to take any questions. I believe that it is appropriate for the government to spend five minutes outlining what we are planning under AusLink 2, considering we are having an investment of some $22.3 billion under this program. It is important that we have the opportunity to do that. Under this program, we are expanding our popular roads funding programs, which are critical to regional Australia—namely, the Roads to Recovery, the strategic regional program and the black spot programs. Projects to be funded this year under the AusLink program include the Hume and Pacific highways in New South Wales, the Geelong bypass in Victoria and Goodna bypass in Queensland. In South Australia we are funding an upgrade of the Northern Expressway and the Port Wakefield Road.

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