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

We are getting on with funding roads of strategic importance and projects in Queensland. I have asked Mark Bailey, the minister responsible, to bring forward projects. We're getting on with making sure that we build the roads, build the ports and do everything that we need to do, as a government, to build a better Queensland. We're getting on with the job of making sure that, if it comes to Queensland, or, indeed, to any state or territory, we're building Roads of Strategic Importance. Those opposite wouldn't ever have funded a program such as Roads of Strategic Importance, because they never ever worried about a regional program—unless they could rort it. And, speaking of the chief rorter, here she is.

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