Senate debates

Thursday, 19 March 2009

Questions without Notice

Banking

2:53 pm

Photo of George BrandisGeorge Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Will the state governments’ inability to borrow or to borrow only at higher interest rates impose future financial demands upon the Commonwealth through Infrastructure Australia? What is the government’s estimate of the additional cost to the Commonwealth of unfunded state debt?

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