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

I thank the member for Lyne for his question. Infrastructure, as he knows and as we on this side of the House know, is a core component of our nation's comeback from COVID-19. This government's record pipeline of investment—$110 billion over 10 years—is delivering jobs, delivering stimulus and making sure that we have the critical infrastructure in the right places right now.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, infrastructure construction has continued. We thank the contractors and the workers, the men and women in the industry, for powering on, for getting on with the job and for making sure that they back themselves as we as a government have backed them too. This ongoing delivery is creating jobs and direct economic stimulus via the projects which are making sure that we transform the nation and the way we live, getting people home sooner and safer. More than $60 billion is budgeted over the next four years. Around 400 major projects have been completed since 2013—since, in fact, when Joe Hockey was Treasurer, and a fine Treasurer he was. I bet you he didn't think he'd come back from America and see me sitting in the chair. Anyway, we will move on. Two hundred major projects are under construction right now. Under—

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