Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for North Sydney for that question and the member for Griffith for another round of her questions. I will very quickly hit one of her persistent questions about the Jobs for Families Child Care Package. We remain committed to the implementation of that package, of course. Bills covering those elements of the package that require legislative changes, and the family tax benefit reforms needed to fund the package, were introduced on 1 September 2016. We delayed implementation of those parts of the package that require legislative changes and significant additional investment by a year, until July 2018, because the relevant bills were not passed by the previous parliament. But those elements that are not tied to the passage of legislation are commencing as planned. I will not go through all of those, in the interests of time.

I do want to come back to the series of questions relating to cities from the member for Grayndler and the member for North Sydney. I am working through the 25 or so questions that I have received as best I can and will take the ones that I cannot get through on notice. I want to make a couple of comments on cities. We are obviously very committed to the cities policy. It has not been downgraded; it has been put into the Prime Minister's portfolio, and that is a very important move. Within it and the infrastructure budget is very significant investment in public transport, including $43 million to the Flinders Link, $95 million to Gold Coast light rail, $595 million to the Moreton Bay rail link and so on. I will not go through all of those.

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