Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Pocock, for your question. I'll get some information for you specifically about regional plans. But what I do know is that the Albanese government is making some very strong investments in infrastructure in the ACT, which is no surprise given that the finance minister, one of our strongest ministers in this chamber and in this parliament, is a strong representative of the ACT. I'm aware, for instance, that the government is investing in road projects, through the Roads to Recovery Program, the Black Spot Program, the Bridges Renewal Program and the Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program. In fact, the Infrastructure Investment Program will provide $92.6 million over 10 years from 2023-24 for those smaller projects. In the recent budget we actually committed $476.4 million towards major infrastructure projects in the ACT, and they didn't include any colour coded spreadsheets, as far as I'm aware. That sort of thing stopped on May 21—