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

The infrastructure investment pipeline that we've had to clean up was riddled with projects that are underfunded and were all about a press release and actually not about delivering infrastructure, particularly into our regions. We've made sure that in the budget we have delivered on our election commitments, and we are working through that process to make sure that they are actually delivered with integrity and with proper guidelines, and I make no apologies for that at all. I'm amused, frankly, by those opposite, who seem to have no concept of the notion of competitive grants or merit in grants, which is what we're getting on with delivering.

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