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

There's never any light and shade with this particular senator; it's just permanent outrage. We're always right up there, aren't we? But I digress.

As I said in response to the budget, we are aligning investment with construction market capacity. We are consulting with states and territories throughout this process. This is the responsible and honest thing to do. If those opposite were honest about this, they would recognise that the government is increasing funding to infrastructure in regional Australia over the next decade. I'll repeat that: they are increasing funding to regional infrastructure over the next decade. But rather than simply announcing, we are ensuring that we can actually deliver on what we say we will do.

In relation to the points that the senator raised in her question, I would say it is interesting to get a question which goes to business cases and probity from a minister who never demonstrated that in her period in government.

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You might think that's outrageous.

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