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

The review that Minister King released today found a pipeline of infrastructure inherited from the coalition that was jam-packed with backed-up projects that were announced without the support of states or territories, poorly scoped, underfunded at the outset or designed simply to win votes. The infrastructure program was spiralling out of control under the coalition, having blown out from 150 to almost 800 projects. It has become clear that the previous government was addicted to announcements and colour-coded spreadsheets and neglected the hard work of building real infrastructure. While they may have had—