New England MP Barnaby Joyce addresses parliament

The Northern Daily Leader

New England MP Barnaby Joyce used his 90-second speech in parliament to mention funding for the New England Rail Trail ripped from local councils. Video from Facebook

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00:00Every now and then I revert back to my accountancy days and try to get some details on numbers

00:09that the Labor Party government provide.

00:12They've given us this astonishing figure that the inland rail has blown out to $31 billion.

00:18So I asked for them to give me some veracity to these figures, and this is what I've got.

00:23On page 6 of this beautiful document, it says it's now about $31 billion, full stop.

00:29That's about as far as we get.

00:32The next one, of course, I asked Minister Rose Jackson, who said that the Dungown Dam

00:36had blown out to $1.1 billion, and what did we get?

00:39The same thing, a one-line, 1.178.

00:43Nothing around it.

00:44These figures have all the veracity of ampered scratchings on the back of a lavatory door.

00:48They are nothing.

00:49They will never, ever pass muster.

00:52Yet we're told to believe it, and when we ask for details, that's what we get.

00:56But it's not only the big, it's also the small.

00:58We've had $8.7 million that was going to go to the rail trail taken away.

01:05This is tens of millions of dollars in capital investment that have been revoked, and Mayor

01:09Margot Davies has brought this to our attention.

01:14The Armadale Regional Council, $5.41 billion, they're gutted by what could have gone into

01:20this tourism precinct.

01:22The Labor government has got to stop taking regional Australia as a joke.

01:27They have actually got to put their money where their mouth is and invest in this nation

01:31and invest in this infrastructure.

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