Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Dunkley. It's been terrific to visit the Baxter station with the member for Dunkley on several occasions, because the member for Dunkley is delivering for his electorate. In the 2016 election he promised $4 million for a business case for the Frankston to Baxter rail upgrade, and that is being delivered. But he went further than that, because in the 2018 budget what did the member for Dunkley deliver? He secured a commitment from the Turnbull government for $225 million for the construction of this upgrade, and on 17 July this year the Victorian Leader of the Opposition, Matthew Guy, promised that a Victorian Liberal-National government would match this with a further $225 million. The Baxter train, the Baxter duplication, is leaving the station. It's an increasingly popular train, because on 31 July the member for Grayndler tried to jump on board, with a manoeuvre he performs from time to time, the ACCC—a set of initials well known in public policy. Here it stands for the 'Albo copy and claim credit' manoeuvre. We saw that on 31 July.

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