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

The New South Wales government is meeting its commitments to provide funding to the Pacific Highway. It is a joint project, as the shadow minister says. We have committed 80 per cent of the funding and we are asking New South Wales to meet the other 20 per cent of the funding, which is consistent with the funding arrangements that apply to the national highway network. So New South Wales is partnering with us in this commitment to complete the Pacific Highway duplication by 2020. It is providing the funds that we have asked of it and we are getting on with the job, something Labor did not do when they slashed funding from these projects.

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