David Coleman (Banks, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This Saturday the people of south-western Sydney and indeed of New South Wales have a very clear choice: to support the pro-jobs, pro-infrastructure Baird government or to return to the incompetence of the New South Wales Labor Party, which of course was writ large for all to see over 16 sorry years, and nowhere more so than in the area of infrastructure, where, over a 16-year period, the Labor Party did one of two things: (a) nothing—and that is what happened most of the time—and (b) incompetent construction. What about the M5 East tunnels, built under the previous Labor government? It was entirely foreseeable that this would be a very, very busy road. It is just near the airport. It was built with only two lanes each way. It should have been three or four lanes each way. Under the WestConnex project, of course, it goes from four lanes to 10. The opposition in New South Wales do not support the WestConnex project. They do not want to support that infrastructure growth. They should do so, because it is great for New South Wales. The member for Oatley, Mark Coure, and the member for East Hills, Glenn Brookes, are passionate advocates of these important infrastructure projects, and I certainly believe deserve the support of their electorates this Saturday. I look forward to continuing to work with those tremendous representatives.