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Thursday, 6 November 2025

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3:17 pm

Corinne Mulholland (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will come to that in a minute. 'Your policy; your document'—it sounds a bit like more fake news from the CNN, the 'Canavan News Network', over there, pumping out wall-to-wall fake news.

Honourable senators interjecting—

Let's talk about that for a minute. Every time the Leader of the Opposition, Sussan Ley, tries to get their show back on the road, to get their energy policy back on the road, the Nationals go off like a malfunctioning smoke alarm, leaving the Liberals running for cover. What do we get? A painful loud noise that everyone wants to be quiet.

Let me talk a little bit about those speed limits for a moment. The previous coalition government—in fact, the then deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack—made a commitment to review default speed limits as part of the Road Safety Action Plan 2018-2020. In fact, it was priority action No. 1 in your plan to review speed limits in high-risk regional roads. Senator Canavan's government—

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