Shayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is interesting that the member for Cowper should mention this, because just today the government has announced the concept design for the Coffs Harbour bypass in his electorate, which has gone on public display. A week ago we opened the Bonville bypass in his electorate, the same day that we announced the partners in the Ipswich Motorway upgrade. These are all good infrastructure projects that this government is delivering on. So I do not really understand what the member for Cowper is on about when he talks about this government doing nothing. We have heard a great dollop of personal vilification of the Prime Minister and almost nothing of what the opposition would do if they sat on this side of the House.

The reality is that the Rudd government is acting to secure the long-term future of this country. The Liberals are divided and shallow about this. We have had three leaders of the Liberal Party in the last 12 months and we have Hamlet, the member for Higgins, up the back there—

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