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

Well, it's better than some of the funding that Labor gave to some of the electorates when it was in. As I said in my previous answer, we are getting on over a phased process. That's the responsible way to roll out infrastructure. I appreciate that the member for Paterson is in a regional electorate. When Labor were last in government, regional spend was $404 million. That was for the electorate of Paterson and other regional electorates. We've doubled and then tripled that spend in our past two terms, and we'll now spend six times that amount over the next three years. Our budget over dedicated regional funds is $2.7 billion, increasing our spend of $1½ billion.

The member for Paterson should be absolutely delighted that we're getting on with spending $15 million on the Cessnock Road at Testers Hollow. She should be very pleased. The M1 Pacific Motorway extension—$1.6 billion allocated to that. The M1 productivity package—

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