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

I ask a supplementary question, Mr President. I have been advised that close that two-thirds of South Australian local councils have written to the Minister and Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development in relation to the slashing of the South Australian supplementary local road funding, asking for a reason for it. The only response given is to tell the local councils to go to the federal Local Government Association. Will the minister actually provide a justification for these cuts and does he acknowledge that South Australia gets much less per road kilometre and per capita than every other state and territory?