Albanese’s on a highway to a bread-and-butter election
The prime minister’s announcement about the Bruce Highway wasn’t so much pork barrelling as trying to demonstrate that the government was actually doing things.
If you were constructing your Federal Election bingo card, the first thing you would put on it – for at least several of the past decades – would be the Bruce Highway.
The 1700-kilometre-long artery that connects Queensland’s south-east to the far north is, in equal measure, a lousy, often treacherous, piece of road and a regular stop for politicians to announce spending decisions to fix bits of it.
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Laura Tingle is chief political correspondent for the ABC's 7.30 program. She is the staff-elected director of the ABC. Connect with Laura on Twitter.
