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

that's got them going, Mr Speaker—the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program, we've approved more than 2,500 projects totalling $447 million.

In the member for Lyne's electorate, works have started on the Clarence Town Road. It's upgrading more than 17 kilometres of this important link, beginning construction across Woodville and Wirragulla. The president of the chamber of commerce of Dungog—a town made famous by Dougie Walters, who will celebrate his 75th birthday later this month and will probably get to 100 in one over—is Marion Stuart. She's the president of that fine district chamber of commerce, and she described the funding for that particular road by saying, 'This road is a major artery into town, and we are very happy works have commenced.' She said, 'We have seen a resurgence of visitors to Dungog, and these works will deliver a safer and more inviting welcome.'

Wherever you go across regional Australia, across urban Australia and across metropolitan areas, you can see the benefit of the infrastructure rollout writ large. It is getting Australians home sooner and safer. It is creating jobs. It is creating procurement for all of those regional, local, urban and metropolitan small businesses, which benefit so much from the infrastructure that this government is putting in place. This Treasurer's budget determined that and made sure of that, right now and going forward. That's what we're doing: building the infrastructure, whether it's in Lyne or in any other regional community right across Australia.

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