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

Can I particularly thank the member for Lyons for the question and commend him for his ongoing advocacy for infrastructure, particularly his continuous advocacy for the Bridgewater Bridge, which is now finally under construction. Unfortunately, what we saw in the last 10 years was the Liberal and National parties using the infrastructure investment pipeline to invest in media statements and in signs rather than in actually delivering projects that improve our communities. The infrastructure review, which I will be responding to in coming days, found an estimated $33 billion of known cost blowouts in projects in the Infrastructure Investment Program, and they have said that there is a high chance that this will blow out even further. Of projects not yet in construction, where not a—

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