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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government—I thought it was someone else; I think it's Minister McCarthy. Recent revelations show CFMEU controlled construction projects cost around 30 per cent more. Australian taxpayers are being forced to pay more to deliver congestion-busting, productivity-enhancing and life-saving infrastructure than they should as a result of state Labor government sweetheart deals with the CFMEU. Other critically important projects are being left unfunded as a result of costs and delays and overruns for existing projects. Minister, has Minister King asked her department for advice on the powers available to her to ensure taxpayer funds for the construction of public infrastructure projects have not been misappropriated or spent on unlawful activity, given the recent revelations about the CFMEU?