Senate debates
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Questions without Notice
Budget
2:34 pm
Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source
I thank the senator for his question. It is in my new representative portfolio of infrastructure. Can I say then that the 2013-14 budget builds on federal Labor's record investment in the nation's roads, rail and urban public transportation. We have already doubled the budget for roads; we are building and upgrading over 7,500 kilometres of road. The government has increased rail spending tenfold and is building—
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