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

The member for Grayndler has sprung out of the benches there full of vigour. He has been re-energised, and I do not think it is the infrastructure section in the budget papers that has done that. He knows that we are getting on with the big infrastructure projects Australia needs. He did not make the decision to build the Western Sydney Airport—oh, no. That was taken by the Abbott government and continued by the Turnbull government, and we are going to build it. We are actually going to build it. We are not talking about it and not arguing with colleagues in the party room about it; we are building it, and we are going to build the inland rail. We are committing $75 billion of infrastructure funding across 10 years. We are doing that, and there is more to come. We look forward to being able to reach agreement with New South Wales and Victoria to acquire their shares in Snowy Hydro, and that will release billions of dollars for priority infrastructure in both states. We are building the infrastructure future generations need to drive the economic growth and the opportunities they deserve. The honourable member knows that his side of politics failed on infrastructure. They failed on the airport. They failed on rail. They failed again and again. We are building. We are growing. We are developing the infrastructure Australia needs.

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