Labor says it will ditch its election promises to communities for new swimming pools or sporting ground upgrades if they do not stack up on a merits-based review. | Katina Curtis
She wants a short, sharp review of Infrastructure Australia to “get it back on track” and restore its role as the pre-eminent advisory body on large-scale infrastructure projects.
“If any of those do not stack up on a merits review, we will not be proceeding with those … They are the ones that are not under the Land Transport Act, they’re the community sporting facilities and those sorts of things,” she said of Labor’s promises.But King stopped short of saying whether she would scrap some of the Coalition’s more controversial projects, such as the
, King says the federal government will talk to the states about what is possible and what they actually want.