Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. They are also claiming that some money went into the Townsville ring road. Of course, that is all money that Peter Lindsay organised two or three years ago. It is the same with the flood-proofing of the Bruce Highway—all money that the coalition government put in the forward estimates two or three years ago. So there is very little in the budget for the area of Northern Australia that I come from.