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

I was just speaking to a constituent of mine from Narrawong in my electorate. He broke ribs, got a punctured lung and had to be taken by ambulance from Portland hospital to Hamilton hospital. He had to be severely sedated along the way because of the condition of the Henty Highway in my electorate. The potholes and disrepair of the road meant that the ambulance ride was sheer hell for this constituent. I had to point out to him, sadly, that the Albanese government cut $40 million of funding from that road and the Princes Highway. We have heard from the good reporting of the Warrnambool Standard that the government has no idea about what it's going to do to reinstate that money. As a matter of fact, it doesn't think that it's needed. It doesn't think that investment is required. I have asked the Prime Minister and the Premier of Victoria to come down to my electorate, drive on our roads and see firsthand the state that they are in, and then say that our roads don't need more funding.