Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

These projects are actually under construction. They're funded. The money has been forwarded, of course, our portion, to the New South Wales government for those important projects. But I make this point: when I became infrastructure minister I inherited 12 years of the Howard government. It's really easy to recognise the big change that occurred, which was: instead of $0 being spent for not a single urban rail project anywhere in Australia over 12 years, we increased rail funding by more than 10 times. I make this point about their performance on infrastructure: Inland Rail, originally costed at under $10 billion, has been costed at $31 billion, without going to a port anywhere—literally inland! It won't deliver anything to a port. (Time expired)

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