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

I'm going to respond briefly to that point because you verballed the department there, so I'm going to clarify that. I have specifically said that my office and I will never use the practice of the previous government, where everything came up to their office electorate by electorate. I don't want my office to see projects by electorate. We should be determining those on the basis of a projects merit. We will release information on a local government area-by-area basis. That is what the department was reflecting. To stop the practice of where everything was done by electorate, I have deliberately asked my department not to provide me with information on an electorate-by-electorate basis, and that was what they were reflecting. So I don't want it to be seen that we're trying to hide information. I'm actually deliberately not asking for it by electorate for the reasons you've raised.

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