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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

Victorian minister trades barbs with Barnaby Joyce during joint press conference

Victoria’s transport infrastructure minister, Jacinta Allan, speaks to reporters.
Victoria’s transport infrastructure minister, Jacinta Allan, also criticised federal funding for the state’s projects. Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP

Victoria’s transport infrastructure minister, Jacinta Allan, has given Barnaby Joyce a spray at their first meeting since the Nationals leader took over the federal infrastructure portfolio, telling him “Victorians are Australian taxpayers as well”.

The duo opened the $324m Echuca-Moama Bridge on the Victoria-New South Wales border on Monday, in what was their first meeting since the deputy prime minister became infrastructure minister in June last year.

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