Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Canavan for his question. What I will rule out is repeating the mess that the former government left us with in this space, making announcement after announcement which was never, ever followed through on. Senator Canavan, we're the adults in the room. We are trying to make sensible, economically sustainable decisions for this country, not simply issuing a press release and then doing nothing about it to follow through, in terms of either any construction or providing any funding for those projects.

What we want to do, Senator Canavan, is get back to where we always should have been, and that is making sensible decisions on infrastructure for this country that are in the best interests of the country, whether that might be in Queensland, in my home state of South Australia, or anywhere else in the country. The comments by the Treasurer on the weekend are exactly to this point. We're going to make decisions in this country that are based on the best interests of all of our citizens and that are in our national interest, and that means doing a thorough investigation into all of those—

Well, you had 10 years to fix this up, and you didn't.