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

Thank you very much for your question. I know that the member means well in asking that question.

This government has inherited an absolute mess when it comes to the infrastructure investment pipeline. This government is investing $123 billion in the infrastructure investment pipeline over the next 10 years and increasing funding to regional communities by over $4 billion over the next 10 years. I'm very proud of that investment.

But what we inherited from the previous government, and the mess that I had to clean up, are projects that are undercooked, underfunded and simply under-deliverable. I can give example after example of projects which are billions of dollars underfunded and where there was no information provided to the state governments before the previous government decided to go out and announce funding.

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