Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Rhiannon for the question. I am sure that I have already answered the question, but I will commence my answer by yet again asking myself, 'Why do the Greens hate infrastructure so much?' It is a little bit like when the senator from Victoria, Senator Rice, asked me a question in relation to the East West Link. Why do you hate projects which ensure that the people of the states in which the projects are being built get jobs? This is a good project.

In terms of the Infrastructure Australia assessment: on 23 February 2015, Infrastructure Australia released their assessment of WestConnex, judging it as 'threshold', which indicates that the project has strong strategic and economic merit. Senator Rhiannon, which part of 'strong strategic and economic merit' do you not understand?