Senate debates

Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Bills

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2015; In Committee

6:16 pm

Photo of Peter Whish-WilsonPeter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

You must have an idea. Some of the numbers I heard were of backlogs of projects worth trillions of dollars waiting to happen. Can you give us an idea? There was a bridge in Burma, I think; that was one that was mentioned. I am just trying to get an idea of the expected rate of return that the Australian taxpayer would be pursuing, or whether that is not even an issue and, instead, it is more of a social capital proposition.

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