Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) | Hansard source

I rise on a very serious issue: the state of the roads in the wonderful electorate of Wannon and right across this nation. This is to raise the matter of Labor's infrastructure review. What are they up to, cutting road funding when roads have been damaged through what, especially in Victoria, has been an incredibly wet winter and from underfunding from the Andrews government year after year. We now are looking at the Green Triangle package of road funding: $50 million is now under threat. There is also the matter of $200 million worth of funding for the Princes Highway, a road like no other in this country, which desperately needs funding to improve it. We're looking at $360 million for the Western Highway—the major route between Melbourne and Adelaide. That's $50 million for the Green Triangle, $200 million for the Princes Highway and $360 million for the Western Highway—all under threat now, because of this Labor government infrastructure review.

We need our roads invested in. We need more money, not less. The state of our roads needs urgent attention, and I cannot believe that the Labor government would be doing this to the electors in Wannon. It is an absolute disgrace.

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