Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Chifley for his question. Indeed, I was with the member for Chifley and other Western Sydney members with the Prime Minister last week when we announced our commitment to help build the M5 and M4 extensions. We want to work with the New South Wales government to achieve real improvements to Sydney's motorways. The current New South Wales proposal has a number of weaknesses in it, and we are insisting that they be fixed. That is the way you do good infrastructure development: get your business plan in place first and then get your funding commitments made.

The three commitments that we have made are these: (1) that the M4 has to take people into the city, (2) that the M5 has to take freight to the port and (3) that you cannot have new tolls on old roads.

Mr Robb interjecting—

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