Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked by Senator Whish-Wilson today relating to investment in infrastructure for Tasmania.

In my home state of Tasmania $900 million is needed right now to upgrade infrastructure that is nearly 100 years old for something as simple as sewerage and water infrastructure. There are 15 communities in Tasmania that do not have clean drinking water at the moment; they have to boil water and are on permanent boiled water alerts. There is our Hobart light rail—$100 million to use the existing rail system to put in place transformative electric rail in to Hobart. We have a desire to build a new port hub in Burnie for $50 million. As the Productivity Commission has outlined, when bundled together these small projects—