George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

If there is an application to the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, as I understand there is, then it will be considered by the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, or the board of governors of that entity, in due course. By the way, on the question of the issue of public investment in the funding of major infrastructure, it has been pointed out to me by one of my colleagues that the Rudd government invested $1.2 billion of public money in Hunter local rail through the Australian Rail Track Corporation.