Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I might just finish, if I may, because I was asked about Infrastructure Australia. Suburban Rail Loop will still be subject to assessment by Infrastructure Australia, under the National Land Transport Act. I'm advised that the project will also be subject to a rigorous assessment process between the Commonwealth and Victoria, and we will respect these processes like any responsible government.

In relation to Warragamba Dam, I am advised that the government is open to discussing the dam-raising project with the New South Wales government in more detail. There is no current proposal before the federal government with respect to co-funding the dam. But I will say this: we are not going to take a lecture about integrity in infrastructure from those opposite, who used taxpayers' funds as if they were their own election slush fund.