Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Our strategy is clear, and that is to support jobs, apprenticeships and small businesses today by investing in the nation-building infrastructure our country needs for tomorrow. That is what we are doing and, in every state of our great nation that I visited in the last six or seven weeks during which we have not been in this place, the response on the ground has been from communities saying: ‘We are glad to see school construction being commenced here. We are glad to see this local government project commencing there. We are even glad to see a sports project commencing in the electorate of Wentworth.’ The local member, it seems, having voted against funding for infrastructure projects, then has the gall to show up and say ‘me too’ in support of that particular project.

Wherever you go across the country people are saying: ‘At least we have a government in there having a go, supporting local projects, making a difference on the ground, supporting skills in their communities and supporting the construction of new homes, as opposed to an opposition that pretends it has an alternative strategy when in fact its alternative strategy is politics, politics and politics.’

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