Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

The most significant of all of the road programs to support the road network at the local level is the Roads to Recovery Program. We have made a $2.1 billion commitment over the next five years towards this program, including a double payment in 2015-16, so that will make a real difference again at the local level in dealing with the road projects that are so important—like the $255,000 that is being spent on Kent Street in Rockhampton, to repair and get the project underway under this particular program.

However, as the House will know, this particular program expired under the legislation of the previous government on 30 June 2014. The bill is now before the Senate and it will be a matter for the Senate to determine now whether or not this $2.1 billion can be paid to local government on schedule. Now Labor and the Greens opposed this legislation in the House of Representatives. They voted against it, and now the challenge to Labor and the Greens in the Senate will be to make sure they support the legislation so—

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