Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is a self-confessed infrastructure nerd, but the times haven’t suited a big spending agenda.
She promised the $120 billion would be kept on a rolling 10-year basis, but said each project would be assessed to determine whether it was “fit for purpose”.The government quickly came under criticism from the opposition for excluding “election commitments” – such as the Commonwealth’s $2.2 billion commitment for Victoria’s Suburban Rail Loop – from the review. This is despite the project not yet receiving approval from Infrastructure Australia.
“It’s quite common for politicians to make promises in the heat of an election campaign,” she says, adding that there should be some kind of process that then assesses whether the projects are viable. “By excluding election commitments from the review, the assumption from the government would be that they are, by definition, meritorious. The facts would suggest otherwise,” she says. “When a premier has a pet project, that gets preference over projects that have been funded, requested and needed in communities and suburbs right around the country.”
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