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

Through his interjection the shadow minister is inviting me to again refer to our $50 billion infrastructure program—scores of new projects around the nation that create jobs for Australians in every state, jobs that will make a difference to the quality of the infrastructure in our nation and indeed in many instances projects which Labor oppose and would certainly never have funded. The reality is that the East West project was one of those, a project that could have made an enormous difference to Melbourne's traffic flow and of course created 7,000 jobs, which would already be being created now. Labor ought to not seek to draw attention to their disgraceful record in this regard in seeking to destroy the job opportunities of Victorians and the chance to build a stronger economy in that state and across our nation.

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