Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

It is also crucial that we create the projects and potential investments to take and capture the greatly heightened international interest in investment in Australia that has been prompted by the government's open-for-business policy and these agreements. To this end, I can report that, having visited major pension funds and private investors in Toronto and New York last week, I was asked continuously about the disappearance of $37 billion worth of infrastructure projects following the election of a Labor government. Just as damaging were the references to the new Victorian government's tearing-up of the contract to construct the East West Link. Comments were being made that these sorts of contracts were no longer worth the paper they are written on. Labor, state and federal, seem hell-bent on severely damaging our economy for crass political purposes.

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