Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister backs this notion of WestConnex reimposing a toll on the people of Western Sydney and does not explain to people that that funding is contingent on the toll. Then what happens? There is a suggestion that we will do an extension from the M2 to the F3. And what do they propose calling it? This will not be called WestConnex; now it is going to be called NorthConnex. Yet another example of original thinking from the coalition!

What was even better was that two Sundays ago we had the coalition at the federal level turn up with the coalition at the state level and try to suggest that this was something that they came up with. Wrong. What actually happened was that they picked up a previous idea and claimed it as their own, and we saw the member for Wide Bay—

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