Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. He is aware that you have to do the planning first, then you have to have the funding available, then you can begin construction and get the infrastructure built—something not understood by those opposite. I was referring before to the Pacific Highway. When the Leader of the Opposition did his little truck tour down the highway, he got all his facts wrong the whole way. Included in that was his statement made standing in Coffs Harbour. He said:

My understanding is the $7 billion or so that will be spent does include a bypass.

The member for Cowper, poor Stanley, had to ring around his local press—

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