Tony Pasin (Barker, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Labor's 90-day infrastructure review has now been underway for—wait for it—136 days, and, while we wait for those opposite to make funding decisions on the $120 billion pipeline of national building infrastructure projects, the productivity of our nation is being held back and road safety issues are not being addressed. The former coalition government set us on a trajectory of increased investment into nationbuilding infrastructure. The Labor government has delivered billions of dollars in funding cuts and delays. This infrastructure review is one we didn't need and, in fact, one we can't afford. The road toll is unacceptably high, with the latest statistics from the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics figures showing that in July there was a 20 per cent increase on a five-year monthly average. And while we wait for those opposite to count 90 days off their calendar and well past 130, infrastructure projects are blowing out. It is this kind of delay that is causing South Australians to lose millions upon millions of dollars, day by day, on the major infrastructure projects in South Australia's north-south corridor. In my own electorate, the critical Truro bypass has the axe held by the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Catherine King, hanging over it. Let's get on with it; let's stop the delay.