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

by leave—I move Australian Greens amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 7769:

(1) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 4), omit "Schedule 4", substitute "Schedules 3A and 4".

(2) Page 13 (after line 28), after Schedule 3, insert:

Schedule 3A—Infrastructure and Regional Development

Infrastructure Australia Act 2008

1 Section 39C

  Repeal the section, substitute:

39C Annual report

     The annual report prepared by the Board and given to the Minister under section 46 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 for a period must also include:

  (a) details of any directions given to Infrastructure Australia by the Minister under subsection 6(1) of this Act during the period; and

  (b) details of each method of preparing cost benefit analyses approval of which was in force under subsection 5B(3) of this Act at any time during the period, including the weight required to be assigned to each factor the method required be taken into account.

These amendments, as I outlined in my speech in the second reading debate, are to change the Infrastructure Australia Act 2008, repealing a section and replacing it with a section which means that, in the annual report of Infrastructure Australia, there have to be details of any directions given to Infrastructure Australia by the minister and details of each method of preparing cost-benefit analyses, approval of which was in force at any time during the period, including the weight to be assigned to each factor and the method required to be taken into account. Essentially, this measure increases transparency and accountability and reinserts a measure that was in the Infrastructure Australia legislation until last year.