Partial Transcript of Interview with David Speers Sky News

Anthony Albanese: Well I'm getting on with my job, and we're being pretty effective, I've got to say David, in terms of getting legislation through the Parliament, dealing with the real issues.

I mean I had to get a question, not from the Opposition, but from Rob Oakeshott, the Member for Lyne, about Pacific Highway funding. We need to do more in terms of ensuring full duplication by 2016, which is a shared objective of the National Government and the NSW Government. I'm acknowledging that, saying we need to move forward in 50/50 funding partnership.

I'm very disappointed that today (Wednesday, 16 February) the National Party Ministers in NSW that used to talk about these issues a lot when they were in opposition, are now saying that they shouldn't be contributing 50 per cent of the funding for the Pacific Highway, which they acknowledged when they were in opposition was actually a “state road”.