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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Senator Cash. Given the $3 billion of federal contribution currently committed to the East West Link project, a massive, polluting road which Victorians rejected, my question is: regarding the evidence we now have that the contracted consortium wrote their own side letter ensuring exorbitant compensation if the new government sensibly did not build it, was the government aware that the secret side letter had been drafted by the consortium and signed off by the then Victorian government? Was it perhaps mentioned at a meeting of the steering committee for East West Link that the federal government was represented on? If so, did the federal government approve?