Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

Why doesn't the government want to ensure the Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop, the Brisbane Live arena and the 28,000 kilometres of transmission lines are actually captured by Infrastructure Australia? The deal you've done with the Greens on social infrastructure today means that those significant infrastructure projects—in the billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money—will have no independent oversight, will not have the ruler run over them by Infrastructure Australia, as was promised by the Prime Minister when he was the Leader of the Opposition seeking to hold government. Why are you explicitly seeking to rule out looking at the Macquarie Harbour project, the Brisbane Live arena and the Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop? What have you got to hide?