Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am coming to the honourable member's specific question. In terms of my own leadership as Prime Minister, a very obvious example is that the federal government is more than ready to finance urban infrastructure—road and rail—and does not discriminate between the two. It would be wrong to say, with respect to the Abbott government, that there was no funding for passenger rail at all—that is not strictly correct—but, broadly speaking, it is fair to say that the position of my distinguished predecessor's administration was not to support urban rail in the same manner as road.

Mr Albanese interjecting—

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