Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

This was a report that then asked for submissions to be put into the east-west study to understand which was the best project to go ahead with. There was a group of four MPs from the Labor side who followed that advice and put in a submission in July 2008. Those MPs were the Hon. Julia Gillard MP, member for Lalor; the Hon. Nicola Roxon, member for Gellibrand; the Hon. Brendan O'Connor, member for Gorton; and the Hon. Bill Shorten, member for Maribyrnong. It says, 'The group supports a cross-city road link for the western suburbs to the Eastern Freeway.'

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