Senate debates Bills

Land Transport Infrastructure Amendment Bill 2014; In Committee


David Johnston

David Johnston WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence

10:36 am

We need to underline the fact that we promised and are committed to ensuring scrutiny of projects above $100 million. Infrastructure Australia, under a different legislative framework, is already getting on with the job. To be clear, we will introduce amendments next week—and I am on the record now for good reason—to the Infrastructure Australia Act which will increase the level of transparency, as we said we would. In this context, we said we would get Infrastructure Australia to provide justification for its advice in a transparent, open and visible way—and we will, as we promised.

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