Roads & Transport Infrastructure

The Nationals will continue to focus on investing in more productive and efficient freight and logistics supply chains to deliver Australian grown and harvested food and fibre, forestry and resources to our supermarkets and ports.

In its first four years, Labor cancelled, cut and delayed over $30 billion in road and rail infrastructure projects.

The Nationals will reinstate the 80:20 federal funding model for nationally significant road projects in regional and remote areas ensuring more regional roads and highways are upgraded.

The Nationals will support local government with the cost of maintaining and repairing local and suburban roads, to ensure our roads are car worthy.

And the Nationals will continue to oppose wacky Labor ideas like the Prime Minister’s 2025 proposal to cut regional speed limits down to 70 kilometres per hour. Cutting speed limits is not the answer to deteriorating roads, fixing the roads is the answer.

The Nationals fight to force Labor to overturn its decision to scrap the Inland Rail. We will get this vital project back on track to help drive investment, jobs and opportunities for regional communities across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

The Nationals will fight to restore fair funding for roads by ensuring all road users, including electric vehicle (EV) drivers, pay their fair share towards the maintenance and repair of our roads and bridges.

The Nationals will end union corruption which under Labor is inflating the cost of delivering infrastructure projects by up to 30 per cent.

The Nationals will remove CFMEU influence from the delivery of Commonwealth funded infrastructure project, cap project funding at originally agreed amounts, not fund states red and green tape imposts on projects and we will support small and medium sized businesses seeking to deliver infrastructure projects.