Dr JENSEN (Tangney) (15:59): Earlier on I was listening to the member for Perth and I was quite incredulous that someone could have such a hide on the issue of transportation infrastructure. Let's just get things in perspective here. On 5 May the member said Freight Link is a 'scandalous squandering of taxpayers' funds'. Let me tell you what is a scandalous squandering of taxpayers' funds. A minister in the WA government decided that she did not like Roe stage 8 and that she also did not like the Fremantle Eastern Bypass. So what happened is that Roe 8 was designed in a spaghetti junction deliberately to try to prevent any further staging from Roe stage 7 into Roe stage 8. It was designed to terminate. I asked the engineers at the time, 'Why have you designed it like this, so that it cannot continue?' They said, 'We had instructions to do so.' The fascinating thing is that she removed the Fremantle Eastern Bypass. I was on the standing committee of transport and I asked the head of her department what research had been done to indicate that the Fremantle Eastern Bypass should be removed. His answer was: 'It was a state government decision.' I asked him again: 'What studies have been conducted that indicate that this is the right thing to do?' He answered in exactly the same political way again: 'It was a state government decision.' In other words, there were no studies. It was just a purely political decision to wipe the Fremantle Eastern Bypass off the map. Ms MacTiernan interjecting— Dr JENSEN: The incredible thing is that the member for Perth is complaining now about how much it is going to cost for the tunnel to go to Fremantle. Boy, talk about 'pot meet kettle'! The Fremantle Eastern Bypass which would have given a surface road that would have enabled easy access to the port has been deleted and the land has been sold by the member for Perth. Now we have to tunnel underneath to get to the Fremantle port because the minister had the audacity to sell off a bypass reserve purely to satisfy her colleague's constituents in that part of the Fremantle electorate. So removing the Fremantle Eastern Bypass was effectively all about vote buying. Here is something that is a further concern. If you speak to, for instance, a whole lot of road engineers and councils and so on in my electorate, they will tell you that they are very concerned. We have the Fiona Stanley Hospital coming up to full steam at the moment. It is causing massive congestion in that area. Ms MacTiernan: It's built on a railway line. Dr JENSEN: The member obviously does not live in the area because she has not seen the congestion there almost 12 hours a day. It is a very serious issue, Member for Perth, when you have ambulances that are not easily able to get in because of significant congestion for the majority of the day because you deleted a bypass and also tried to get rid of the ability to get to Roe stage 8 in order to simply satisfy the votes that you saw as necessary for getting the seats that you required. There was no study done to indicate that the Fremantle Eastern Bypass should be removed. It was a blatant political decision. It is as simple as that. That is a disgrace. For my electorate, the work that is being done by our government in funding Freight Link is very much welcomed. People are sick and tired of the congestion in my electorate. They see Roe stage 8 as a very welcome piece of relief. They are relieved that they are going to get some relief from the traffic snarl-up that is there every single day with roe stage 7 and the Kwinana Freeway. It is a debacle and your design stinks.