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

There's $150 million for phase 2 of the Northern Territory national network highway upgrades and $173.6 million towards the sixth corridor of the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative. That supports the development of the gas industry in the Beetaloo sub-basin and, indeed, $0.3 million for a development study of the proposed Tennant Creek multimodal facility and rail terminal, which I visited not that long ago. When, you might ask? We are getting on with the job. We will work with the Northern Territory government, because that's what we do. They give us their priorities. We invest in them. We do it on an 80-20 basis when it comes to regional areas, unlike Labor, where it's only 50-50. That's why—let me tell you—territory and state governments love it when the Liberals and Nationals are in government. It's because they get more value for their infrastructure dollar.

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