Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Hansard source

The report states very clearly that neither stage 1 nor stage 2 of the East West Link project required Commonwealth funding in 2013-14. It then says:

Advance payments on or before 30 June 2014 would increase the deficit for 2013-14 but improve the reported position for later years.” ...

It went on further in the report to say that departmental advice to ministers—

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