Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

It is a great privilege to answer this question from the member for Solomon, and I thank her for our first day , on our way into

It was a real privilege to join the Prime Minister in East Arnhem Land, and I thank the community for welcoming us into their very special part of Australia. It was a unique opportunity to understand the pressures from their perspective and what we need to do to help assist and build the infrastructure to enable those communities, not just in an economic sense but in a social sense. It was a welcome trip from our perspective, but I think it also gave the community an opportunity to provide feedback.

We are committed the Northern Territory. There is $90 million extra in the budget and the $77 million Northern Territory roads package that we announced in the budget, which will strengthen and widen roads—

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