Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Johnston representing the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. In the budget the government announced that the $18 million South Australian supplementary local road fund would not be extended beyond this financial year. That means, in effect, that cuts to road funding are proportionally bigger for South Australians than for anyone else in the nation. With South Australian local government currently managing 11 per cent or 75,000 kilometres of the nation's local road network, covering 7.2 per cent of the nation's population, but only receiving 5.5 per cent of identified local roads grants funding, could the minister outline to the Senate how they plan to address this inequitable funding situation for South Australia?