Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development (Senate)) Share this | Hansard source

I want to take the opportunity to congratulate the fine work of the co-chairs of the inquiry into the National Road Safety Strategy 2011-2020, which was presented here last Wednesday in the parliament by the co-chairs, Associate Professor Jeremy Woolley and Dr John Crozier, with assistance from advisers Mr Lachlan McIntosh and Mr Rob MacInerney. It is absolutely unacceptable that on current figures, by the time we get to 2030, 12,000 Australians could be killed and 360,000 injured, at a cost of possibly more than $300 billion. I'm looking forward to a response from the government and Minister McCormack. Minister McCormack's response to the announcement of the report was that he was looking to work in a bipartisan relationship with Labor. We will certainly be doing everything we can to absolutely put a stop to this terrible— (Time expired)