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

I seek leave to move opposition amendment (1) on sheet 2319.

Leave granted.

I move the amendment standing in my name:

(1) After subsection 5DA(2), insert:

Initial assessment

(2A) Infrastructure Australia must conduct an assessment under this section, and prepare a report on the assessment, in relation to projects covered by subsection (2) that are commitments of the Commonwealth Government first made on or after 22 May 2022.

(2B) Infrastructure Australia must cause a copy of the report on the assessment under subsection (2A) to be tabled in each House of the Parliament:

(a) within 3 months after the commencement of this section; or

(b) if no sitting day of the relevant House occurs within that period and after the report is finalised—on the next sitting day after the end of that period.

Annual assessments