Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I brought this motion to the chamber today in the context of the G20 statement on infrastructure, which set out a set of leading practices about good transport planning that the government's allocation of $3 billion to the East West Link clearly did not meet. These leading practices state that we need to have a national infrastructure plan. Because of Infrastructure Australia, in fact we do have a national infrastructure plan that very clearly states that, in urban areas, public funding should be allocated primarily towards public transport. So, in moving this motion today, we felt that it was quite appropriate, giving those leading practices, and timely to point out that here we have a national infrastructure plan, we have leading practices that have been acknowledged in the G20 meeting, and yet it is still being proposed to allocate $3 billion towards the East West Link.