Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. South Australia has 11.8 per cent of the nation's local roads and seven per cent of the population; however, we receive less than five per cent of the federal funding towards large transport infrastructure projects. South Australia is grossly underfunded for road infrastructure, and in 2014 we lost the supplementary local road funding that addressed this inequity. During the devastating recent storms my electorate suffered over $10 million worth of damage to local roads, a cost my community can ill afford. Will the government urgently review their funding model to make it fairer for South Australia, and will the government consider an urgent one-off grant to help repair the badly damaged roads in my electorate of Mayo?

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