Melissa McIntosh (Lindsay, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention) | Hansard source

One of the first questions I would like to ask is: where is the government's bill to appropriate $2½ million from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to continue to pay for the next stage of Mulgoa Road—the upgrade that my electorate so desperately needs? We already know the answer. It will never happen under the Albanese Labor government, after they axed funding for local infrastructure projects right across the board in my community and right throughout Western Sydney. Mulgoa Road's next upgrade was going to widen lanes at three key junctions to provide much-needed traffic relief. The government doesn't care about Glenmore Park mums and dads getting home sooner and safer. The government doesn't care about Regentville seniors who need help to take their grandkids to and from footy training during peak hour or to pick them up from school. And they certainly don't care about Penrith parents jumping off the M4 to get home to make dinner for their family. This government doesn't care about seniors in Jamisontown who might miss important doctor appointments because of the enormous amount of traffic, continual traffic, on Mulgoa Road.

Over $200 million for Mulgoa Road is only a fraction of the damage the Labor government is doing to my part of Western Sydney by not delivering on infrastructure commitments. In fact, there are over $5 billion of funds promised by this government in the mid-year budget of October 2022 for needed infrastructure and transport projects, for the futureproofing of the growth of Western Sydney, that have just gone—$5 billion cut from Western Sydney infrastructure.

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