Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

That raises a very valid question. This new Infrastructure Australia organisation will, I suspect, provide advice—that seems to be its primary reason for being—about who should be handling these things and how they can be achieved. The simple point I am making is that the government is making quite a lot of noise about its intention to do something about infrastructure but it would seem that the clearest obstacle to infrastructure delivery in this country presently is the incompetence of state governments—and that is something it is going to have to address.

The Prime Minister puts himself out there as some sort of new ‘father of federation’ when it comes to these issues. I would be very interested to know what Infrastructure Australia is going to have to say about how the federal government is going to get the state governments to actually do their jobs, and we will see an end—

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