Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Once more, this is not $3 billion committed to Victoria; it is $3 billion committed to the East West project. There can be no guarantee, no commitment whatever, that the money will be redirected to some other project such as bikeways or whatever the Greens happen to want next week. The reality is this is money committed by the Commonwealth for a specific project that will benefit Melbourne's traffic and the Victorian economy. I commend the member for Corangamite who has today launched a petition inviting people to lobby members of the Labor Party from Western Victoria—people like the member for Ballarat—

Mr Albanese interjecting—

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