Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Member for Dawson, how do you explain this? You would rather shave 28 minutes off a journey between Newcastle and the Hunter region, which is not even on the national highway, than look after the national highway in North Queensland. How can your government get it so wrong? The Hunter Expressway is not even on Roads Australia’s list of priority projects, yet it gets $1.45 billion, and North Queensland and the Bruce Highway are only allocated one-third of that. Where is the priority?

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