Senate debates

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Questions without Notice

Australian Capital Territory: Infrastructure

2:31 pm

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Pocock. As you stated, Senator Pocock, today the minister for infrastructure, Ms King, released the government's new infrastructure policy. What it's about more than anything is getting our infrastructure program into shape so it can actually be funded and actually be delivered. That's the case whether it be in the ACT, my home state of Queensland or anywhere else. We did see, Senator Pocock, over 10 years of coalition government, massive blow-outs of the infrastructure program. It was an infrastructure program that, under the coalition, expanded from about 150 projects to 800—

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