BRISBANE, Queensland, March 19 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement:
Minister for Transport and Main Roads
The Honourable Brent Mickelberg
Fixing the Bruce - $9 Billion Safety Package Kicks off
The Albanese Labor Government and Crisafulli Queensland Governments are delivering on our promise to fix the Bruce Highway, with work to begin on the first set of safety upgrades in the $9billion Bruce Highway Safety Package.
In January, the Federal and State Governments committed $7.2 billion and $1.8 billion respectively to fix Queensland's Bruce Highway.
Today, we're getting on with the job by investing an initial $300 million in early works and planning including 16 new projects between Gympie and Innisfail that ...