Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

It will create thousands of jobs—thousands upon thousands of jobs will be created. I've already mentioned the 7,000 jobs from the Inland Rail. There are a lot of other projects as well. A few weeks ago we announced that we'd bring infrastructure funding forward to create more jobs sooner in Queensland. Around 28 infrastructure projects will start in Queensland next year. So as we go into Christmas—only a few weeks away from next year—we're only a few weeks away from thousands of jobs being created in Queensland due to our infrastructure funding. For example, there will be upgrades on the M1 Pacific Motorway from Eight Mile Plains to Daisy Hill and from Varsity Lakes to Tugun. Those two projects will create over 1,500 jobs. On the Bruce Highway a range of projects—including the Mackay Northern Access Upgrade, the Cairns Southern Access project, the Saltwater Creek Upgrade, the Maroochydore Road Interchange and Deception Bay Road Interchange—will all start next year, creating over 1,300 jobs. I'm going to run out of time, but there are other projects creating over a thousand jobs as well. Jobs and jobs and jobs and new infrastructure programs—