Senate debates

Thursday, 16 November 2023

Questions without Notice

Infrastructure

2:42 pm

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

I could give a short answer, and the answer would be zero because the government has maintained every single dollar of the $120 billion that was contained in the infrastructure investment program we inherited from the coalition. Of course, the problem is that that infrastructure, which was developed by Senator McKenzie and her colleagues with their colour-coded spreadsheets, had blown out by $33 billion. It's an infrastructure program that had blown out from 150 projects to over 800 projects, so it's completely unable to be delivered—

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