RUDDOCK ACCUSES GILLARD GOVERNMENT OF BETRAYAL
The recently delivered Federal Budget is ‘ a budget of betrayal’.
Speaking in Federal Parliament this week, local MP Philip Ruddock said the Labor Government had betrayed not only the people of the Berowra electorate, but also surrounding electorates of Mitchell and Robertson by their blatant decision to strip away the $150 million previously confirmed as part of their Nation Building Program and allocated for design work needed to make the M2 – F3 project ‘shovel ready’.
‘Minister Albanese previously confirmed to me that a memorandum of understanding had been signed with the then NSW Labor Government and Federal Labor remained committed to the funding’.
Now however, they have taken a ‘base political decision’ to strip this money away from the missing link project and use it to expand the Pacific Highway project in an attempt to ‘buy off’ one of the Independents.
Mr Ruddock said he is not the only MP angry about this betrayal.
‘The new (Labor) MP for Robertson knows that her future is very much dependent upon her constituents being able to access Sydney safely.’ Mr Ruddock said he was aware that she ‘peddles around the electorate’ that the Budget decision may be about to be reconsidered.
‘Yet when I recently asked the Federal Treasurer if this was so, he made it very clear that the Government had “no intention “ of doing so.’
‘People need to know something of the history of the M2 – F3 link to fully understand the enormity of the ALP’s current betrayal.’
‘The Labor Party have had their fingerprints on this for a very long time and they play one government off against the other – ensuring nothing is done. Meanwhile ‘ heavy transport such as B-doubles and the like are mixing with mums and their bubs ‘ in what he described as ‘a disaster waiting to happen.’