Malarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

I certainly don't accept the premise of the question, given that it is our government that is providing for roads across the country—especially in the Northern Territory, for example. I drove out to Wadeye on the Port Keats Road. We have invested $70 million into that road, and not once have I seen—you may wish to talk to your colleagues in the Northern Territory. There was not one area where I saw that road being completed. Our government is very much contributing the funding for roads right across Australia, but it does come down to the relationships with the leadership of each of those state and territory jurisdictions. If you take places like the Northern Territory, who need to be able to work and actually roll those roads out when we have provided the funding, I suggest to you that you talk to your colleagues up there to assist us with that. I will say this—