Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Honourable members know that we do not discriminate between road or rail. Mass transit projects can be funded. It was only on Sunday that I was with many of my South-East Queensland colleagues and the minister for major projects. We were at Griffith University, at the light rail station, announcing our support for $95 million to complete that light rail line to link up to the heavy rail line to Brisbane and Helensvale. It is an excellent project and one that has received a lot of support in the community of South-East Queensland. It will make a very big difference, so we strongly support that. But the reality is that our government is supporting infrastructure right across the board. We will deliver a $50 billion program. The honourable member knows that, but projects have to have a business case. They have to be assessed, they have to be assessed in a businesslike way, and we have to look at more innovative approaches to financing them. We are very committed to that. We will look at whatever method can ensure that the Commonwealth, working with state and local government and the private sector, can mobilise the billions that we need to ensure that we have the infrastructure for the 21st century.

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