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

The member for Grayndler boasted that these were Labor funded projects—except the problem for him was the member for Lilley, when he was Treasurer. He made it absolutely clear that these projects were not in fact funded, because he said that revenue from the mining resource tax went:

… to investment in infrastructure projects like the Gateway project in Western Australia around the airport. That's what it's all about … If we don't have the revenue from the tax then we can't make the investments.

Of course, how much revenue did they get from the tax? Zero. Labor, in fact, was funding these projects with money that did not exist, and the Treasurer knew that it did not exist. The projects were simply not funded. From our perspective we have got the projects working, we have got them under construction, we have got them advancing and delivering jobs and opportunities in Western Australia, and they are paid for. That is the difference between a government that believes in sound economic management and those who believe that you can build things with Monopoly money, that you are never brought to account.

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