Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Dunkley for his question. He's a good member, and he knows that this government has the back of Victorians. This government has the back of everyone in Australia who wants infrastructure to build jobs, to build this nation and to build our future. The Liberal and Nationals government is committed, and is investing in more than $75 billion through our 10-year, decade-long infrastructure investment pipeline—a 10-year plan to bust congestion in our capital cities and, in our regions, to connect those communities that are looking for connection to ports and to further markets to take advantage of what the trade minister and the assistant minister, the member for Hinkler, are doing. All the while this is creating tens of thousands of jobs: a million jobs brought about five months earlier than we anticipated—more jobs for local businesses and more jobs for local communities.

When we talk about the state of Victoria, we look at the $12.9 billion to key infrastructure projects, including $5 billion for the Melbourne Airport rail link announced by the Prime Minister recently, up to $1¾ billion towards the North East Link and $475 million towards planning and preconstruction works for Monash rail—all of which are going to drive jobs creation. We are delivering.

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