Allegra Spender (Wentworth, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

not just of these audits but of much more of the material which is used by government to consider infrastructure investments.

The second thing this set of amendments does is to require Infrastructure Australia to collect project cost data once the projects are complete. It astonishes me that this is not already commonplace and that there are no established mechanisms by which we can learn the lessons from past projects to better inform our future decisions. There are already kinds of post-completion reports prepared by state governments, but these are not public, and, I understand, these reports are generally inadequate for any kind of learning. This should change, and my amendments would lay the foundations for this to begin.

As I said, these changes are simple improvements to the bill which could have a large and positive impact on the value that Australians receive from the enormous amounts of money invested in infrastructure projects.

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