Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I will reiterate what I have already said in a previous answer, because Senator Macdonald has chosen to ignore the answers that have been given when he asked the questions. The Rudd government has established the Building Australia Fund, the Education Investment Fund and the Health and Hospitals Fund to fund critical economic and social infrastructure. As I mentioned, legislation to set theses funds up will be introduced shortly and we will be looking forward to your support for that. We have already injected $26 billion into these funds, including $12.6 billion into the Building Australia Fund. It could not be clearer than that. The government has asked Infrastructure Australia to bring forward its interim national priority list by December of this year— (Time expired)