Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Tourism) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. I ask the minister: why is federal infrastructure funding for South Australia just $95 million in 2020-21, or just two per cent of the federal infrastructure and transport budget?

Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. We are spending considerable amounts of money in South Australia. In fact, the investment is $3,439 million. And, whilst we're talking about spending and spending in infrastructure, Labor's average annual infrastructure spend was $6.05 billion. That's impressive, that's good—I'll give you that—but it's $2.1 billion less per year than the coalition's $8.14 billion annual average spend as part of our record $75 billion spend in infrastructure. Labor can cherrypick the figures until, as my late father would say, the cows come home, but the inescapable fact is that our record $75 billion infrastructure investment is delivering more than Labor ever did in South Australia or any other state.