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

to make the road safer in those parts. In the fifth month before Christmas, we delivered the Moree Bypass—sixth months ahead of schedule—in the electorate of Parkes. In the fourth month before Christmas, we delivered the Glenorchy Straight upgrade for the people of Wide Bay. In the third month before Christmas, there was $35 million for drought assistance for projects in outback Queensland and New South Wales. In the second month before Christmas, we delivered stage 1 of the North West Coastal Highway in the electorate of the honourable member for Durack. In the last month before Christmas—in fact, next week—the government will deliver the $170 million upgrade to the Yeppen floodplain in the electorate of Flynn. So those are many examples of the way in which the government is delivering safer motoring for people over the Christmas period, delivering presents, but presents which will deliver for our nation's economy as it grows stronger—

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

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