Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Tourism and International Education) Share this | Hansard source

As the Prime Minister said, we will look at projects in infrastructure on their merits. We will not discriminate against forms of transport, and the Prime Minister was quite clear in his comments about that last Sunday. We will look at transport projects on their merits and we will fund them in accordance with the projects that are put forward. The Queensland government prioritised the Queensland light rail and made submissions to the Australian government. Prime Minister Turnbull took up the project that was submitted by the Queensland government and, last Sunday, made that announcement. We are not interested in the Labor Party's priorities with respect to infrastructure. We are quite capable of establishing and setting our own priorities, and that is what we will continue to do. But, as the Prime Minister said, we will look at the different forms of infrastructure that support various modes of transport in various locations and, if it is public transport within the cities, we will support that. (Time expired)