Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

I was actually asked about projects under the infrastructure investment pipeline, including projects in regional Victoria to which I am referring. And it was an absolute mess. The money for the Shepparton bypass remains in the budget and we are fully committed to that project. It remains in the budget.

But this is typical of what the previous government did: all announcement and not able to deliver the projects. Completely underfunded, undercooked and under-deliverable, because the previous government was more interested in going out and getting an announcement in the papers and putting the press release out. You can't drive on a press release and you can't actually build a road if you don't have enough money for it!

That is the problem: the legacy that you have left is of undercooked, underfunded and under-deliverable projects because you mismanaged the infrastructure investment pipeline.

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