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

She was very vocal in her criticism of the delay between announcing projects and their delivery when we were in government. I quote her now:

… 55 per cent of their newly announced infrastructure spend will be off into the never-never beyond the forward estimates.

Guess what that number is in this budget? It's 82 per cent. She was complaining about 55 per cent when the coalition was in charge of the spend. She is now in control, and it has blown out to 82 per cent. This minister is hopeless and if this Prime Minister cared about infrastructure— (Time expired)