Amanda Rishworth (Kingston, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Why is federal infrastructure funding for South Australia just $95 million in 2020-21, or just two per cent of the federal infrastructure budget?

Mr Pyne interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the House will cease interjecting.

Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question, and might I say, let's start with the Osborne shipyard. I think that's about $1½ billion they're spending there. In fact, South Australia—

Ms Rishworth interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Member for Kingston.

Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

has been the recipient, under this government, of one of the greatest forms of largesse that South Australia's ever got, whether it's the Offshore Patrol Vessels—

Ms Rishworth interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Kingston is warned.

Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

the frigates, the submarines, Osborne, Defence—there is myriad investment happening to South Australia. And might I commend the member for Sturt for his incredible advocacy for South Australia. In fact, you can hardly shut him up about South Australia! He's unstoppable about South Australia. It's that sort of advocacy that's brought forward this investment.

When we look at other things—I know that currently they're talking about the Strzelecki Track, and we see that there's investment in the North-South highway within Adelaide—for South Australia it has been a boom time of investment under this government. There is money flowing out of Canberra, dripping out of Canberra, running into South Australia, whether it's investment in the Murray-Darling Basin Plan—remember the $13 billion investment there—and the Manager of Opposition Business is actually putting that in jeopardy. You should have a yarn to him about that investment in South Australia and where that goes if you reject the Northern Basin Review. So, South Australia has been anything but left out by this federal government.