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

NDER () (): I'd like to just make a note to the House that the minister just described it as 'cute' that I had put this amendment forward. We took the Prime Minister's own amendment to the drafters and said: 'Can you please replicate that in the Infrastructure Australia bill, given that, obviously, the act has changed over time since he made that piece.' That is exactly how it was done, and I'm happy to share the emails and the correspondence on that to prove that this is what I'm intending to do: exactly what the Prime Minister asked to do in the first place.

In terms of the point that you raised about cost-benefit analysis and having consistency: I support having consistency in cost-benefit analysis, but what I'm asking for is that it is published, that it is available and that we do not fund things in this country, nor make any public commitments to funding, without effective cost-benefit analysis beforehand.

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