Deborah O'Neill (Robertson, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It will indeed be a quick question. I want to note, in the minister's comments today, not just the significant amounts of money that are being invested, and not just the vision and a deep understanding of investment for the benefit of the nation, for our productivity and our future, but the constant awareness of the reality that these projects create jobs.

I come from a family steeped in construction. The first photographs I have of me, Minister, are of me sitting on top of a D9, a great big bulldozer, when my father was helping build the Bradfield Highway. And I was delighted to climb onto a Hitachi excavator in the electorate just last week for the announcement of the Gosford passing loops and that $146 million project.

But my questions go particularly today to the F3-M2, because this is a critical piece of infrastructure, and also to the widening of the exits and sections of the F3, which will improve not only the safety of people from the Central Coast in travelling to and from Sydney but also their lifestyle, by helping them to be able to get home. So this is part of a great national investment, and I would like to hear more from the Minister about the F3-M2.

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