Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator McKenzie's comments about shifting money from other regions, especially rural regions, down to Victoria to help current Premier Dan Andrews in a difficult election reminded me of the Rockhampton ring-road, which is urgently needed and to which $700 million to $800 million had been committed. Land had been purchased. Families had moved into Rockhampton to start work. Companies locally had bought construction equipment. It was cancelled—just like that—to send money to help shore up the corrupt regime of Premier Dan Andrews.

Does the government realise that shifting these things for electoral gain, that may occur in the Hunter due to a proposed way-off high-speed rail connection, costs money and lives in other regions—particularly, in my concern here, in Central Queensland with the Rockhampton ring-road being shelved? What is the government doing to protect the people who have already made a commitment with their lives to this ring-road?