Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Hansard source

and, importantly, the complete abolition of any investment in urban public transport. You cannot deal with projects in cities without dealing with urban public transport—projects like the Cross River Rail; projects like the Melbourne Metro; projects like the one at Tonsley Park that this fellow, the member for Mayo, thinks was a freight line. It is a passenger line. And he lives in Adelaide! It is in his local community and it is a passenger line. Yet those opposite say we should allocate funds regardless of whether or not there is a cost-benefit analysis.

The fact is that those opposite do not have a plan for the long term. They do not have a plan for infrastructure. They want to dilute the Infrastructure Australia model and they want to trash the independence of Infrastructure Australia.

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