Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

which is funded in the budget in the budget papers. We are a government that have always delivered for local government. We believe, indeed, that local government is best placed to deliver community infrastructure because they can determine what local priorities are. They have proper auditing procedures. It's far better than setting up a committee of a few people sitting around with colour coded spreadsheets deciding where taxpayers' money would be used. That's what they did.

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