Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Conroy. I refer the minister to the OECD’s recent world Economic Outlook, highlighting the fact that infrastructure projects currently underway from the Rudd government’s stimulus spendathon require transparency and more rigorous scrutiny. Given that the Treasurer stated in September 2008 that the government’s infrastructure would be subject to ‘rigorous cost-benefit analysis’, can the minister confirm that a cost-benefit analysis has been carried out on all of the government’s infrastructure projects?