Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

The government does not support the amendment. I am advised that part 39C(a) is already provided for in the act under 39C of the act and 39C(b) of the amendment is already provided for under subsections 5B(3), 6, 7 and 8, which require Infrastructure Australia to approve the cost-benefit analysis methodology to be used, review the methodology regularly and make the report of the review available on its website within 14 days.

Infrastructure Australia include in their evaluation templates the cost-benefit methodology requirements and, as Senator Brown acknowledged in her contribution, this information is already publicly available on its website. So it is the government's view that this is not necessary and would merely add to the legislation in a manner that is not required and would not deliver anything that Infrastructure Australia is not currently already doing.