Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

We've been left to clean up this absolute mess of pork-barrelling. We've seen nine projects that date back to 2016, six projects where there's no proponent and over $18 million of projects where there is no actual location for a project. The member for New England, the previous minister, wrote to the Treasurer about two projects that he awarded to himself, of which there is no actual record of any decision being made. This is the mess that you've left for us.

I am very proud of our record in regional Australia on this. We are investing in the regions. We'll continue to do so, instead of the pork-barrelling that was actually categorised by the last government. We're going to clean up this mess.

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