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Labor split on Bruce Highway
The Bligh Government has been caught out with one of their senior Ministers confirming ‘there was no plan’ to fixing the Bruce Highway during the past 20 years of Labor power in Queensland. Tim Mulherin’s admission in Gladstone on Wednesday night that Queenslanders had been ‘dudded for years’, was the first confession Queenslanders have had from a tired Labor Government admitting they had failed to act on the Bruce Highway for their entire 20 year term.
While the Roads Minister was being a buffoon, somehow trying to shift responsibility from the Government in office to the Opposition that is not in office, Minister Mulherin has let the cat out of the bag.
Mr Muherin has simply admitted what Queenslanders already knew - that Labor has had no plan and, now, after 20 years, they have announced an 11th hour election ploy that requires Queenslanders to wait another 20 years.
More than two decades of Labor abandonment of our State’s main economic artery has left the Bruce Highway rated as Queensland’s worst road by the state’s peak motoring body, the RACQ.
The Bruce Highway is a disgrace and Labor’s carbon tax will only make road construction much more expensive in the future – that’s why Premier Bligh must stand up to Canberra at the COAG meeting today and fight Labor’s toxic tax.
Unlike Labor, the LNP understands the importance of the Bruce Highway to Queensland communities, businesses, mining and rural industries and a CanDo Government will commit to upgrading the Bruce Highway.
An LNP government will, within the first six months of office, task the Department to prioritise projects and put together a proper 10-year plan to the get our state’s main highway up to a safe standard. The result will be the delivery of preliminary designs, costings and cost-benefit analyses.
