Claire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Once again, the Greens political party is walking both sides of the infrastructure debate. Labor neither favours roads over rail nor rail over roads, as recommended by experts. We need both to deal properly with needs, not just for some parts of our cities but across our cities, and also needs in regional Victoria. That is why we established Infrastructure Australia.

Labor allocated $3 billion to the Melbourne Metro Rail Project, based on Infrastructure Australia's advice that the metro was much better taxpayer value than the East West Link. Labor also funded M80 projects and managed motorway projects, based on high net benefits. These were also cut.

Given that the Greens political party has backed the Infrastructure Australia model, we are again surprised by a motion that seeks to supplant expert opinion. Labor supports the modal solution that gives the community the best value and supports these funds being spent in Victoria.