House debates Matters of Public Importance

Infrastructure

Wednesday, 11 December 2013 House of Representatives

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport

4:07 pm

and, importantly, the complete abolition of any investment in urban public transport. You cannot deal with projects in cities without dealing with urban public transport—projects like the Cross River Rail; projects like the Melbourne Metro; projects like the one at Tonsley Park that this fellow, the member for Mayo, thinks was a freight line. It is a passenger line. And he lives in Adelaide! It is in his local community and it is a passenger line. Yet those opposite say we should allocate funds regardless of whether or not there is a cost-benefit analysis.

The fact is that those opposite do not have a plan for the long term. They do not have a plan for infrastructure. They want to dilute the Infrastructure Australia model and they want to trash the independence of Infrastructure Australia.

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