Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal National Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to talk about some of the listening posts that I've done in my electorate over the summer. I did the 'Tour de Fisher' for 2025, where I rode around in my electorate, speaking to my community, taking my office to them. I also did a really very busy listening post just last week. What people were telling me is that they are hurting. They are feeling like they are being consistently and economically crushed by this government.

One of the other things they talked to me about was the unbelievable squeeze that they are experiencing in relation to road construction on the Sunshine Coast. I listened yesterday to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government talk about all of the wonderful things this government is apparently doing on road construction. Let me tell the minister that that's not happening on the Sunshine Coast as a result of this federal government. What she didn't talk to the parliament about yesterday was the fact that she cut $180 million from the Mooloolah River Interchange project. She also cut funding to the Caloundra access road, which would have provided a second access road into what is now a very busy Caloundra. Without the Crisafulli government picking up the slack in building and funding these projects, they simply would not have happened.

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