INFRASTRUCTURE AUSTRALIA PROJECTS — BINDOON BYPASS
635. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Minister for Transport:
I have a supplementary question. If
the Bindoon bypass is re-profiled in the budget papers this evening, can we
take it that the minister has failed to advocate for the delivery of the
project?
Ms R.
SAFFIOTI replied:
Given that the National Party had
eight and a half years to deliver this project, do we take it that it failed
regional Western Australia time and again?
Under its stewardship, it did not invest in road safety funding, it did not
build the Bunbury Outer Ring Road, it
did not build the Albany ring-road, it did not fix the projects on Great
Northern Highway and it did not spend money on road maintenance. Shall
we say that it completely failed regional Western Australia for eight and a half
years? I think that is a yes. It had eight and a half years, but it said it did
not want to spend money on regional road funding. It purposely went out there
to not deliver projects in regional WA, so do not start lecturing us about
delivering road spending in WA. Everywhere people go, there are road works,
road spending and local people building our roads.