Infrastructure matters. Infrastructure investment is the key enabling force behind sustainable economic growth. Investing in infrastructure projects creates jobs, boosts productivity and improves lives. Incoming IA chairman Col Murray with his local member Barnaby Joyce. Transport means those in marginalised suburbs and regions can take advantage of opportunity. It allows wealth to spread, it allows

In news that will surprise absolutely nobody, Barnaby Joyce’s new appointments to the board of Infrastructure Australia amount to little more than a Nationals stack of this integral economic advisory agency. Of seven new appointments to the board, four have easily discoverable links to the Liberal and National Parties. The new chair, Colin Murray, describes

E&OE TRANSCRIPTRADIO INTERVIEWABC NEWSRADIO WITH GLEN BARTHOLOMEWWEDNESDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2021 SUBJECTS: New chair of Infrastructure Australia; George Christensen and extremist threats. GLEN BARTHOLOMEW, HOST: Good afternoon, Catherine. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Good afternoon, Glen. BARTHOLOMEW: What do you know about Col Murray? KING: Well, I’ve met him once before

E&OE TRANSCRIPTDOORSTOP INTERVIEWPARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRAWEDNESDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2021 SUBJECTS: New chair of Infrastructure Australia; Peter Dutton doing the numbers. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Yesterday, we had Barnaby Joyce confirm that he’s intending to appoint his hometown mayor, the former Mayor of Tamworth, to the chair of Infrastructure Australia. This

Major upgrades to much-loved swimming pools and aquatic centres in Dandenong and Noble Park will be supported by an Albanese Labor Government with a $20 million funding commitment. Partnering with the City of Greater Dandenong, an Albanese Labor Government will help to deliver the lifestyle and aquatic centres that both these communities deserve. Noble Park

Despite much hype, the Minister who brought Australians Sports Rorts has today failed to bring any clarity to the Morrison-Joyce Government’s approach to regionalisation. The centrepiece of the Minister’s new policy seems to be a plan to hand some money to a handpicked list of regional centres around Australia. You’ll have to forgive Labor’s scepticism,

Evidence given at a Senate Inquiry today has brought billions of dollars-worth of infrastructure projects into question as the Morrison-Joyce Government’s pork and ride scandal expands to the entire $4.8 billion Urban Congestion Fund, with more dodgy announcements on their way ahead of the upcoming election. In a hearing of the Finance and Public Administration

An Albanese Labor Government will bring secure jobs, skills and new opportunities for Far North Queensland by investing $50 million to build a new CQ University campus in the heart of the Cairns CBD. This new campus will be built on the long vacant block on the corner of Grafton and Hartley streets, creating 330

An Albanese Labor Government will kick start high speed rail by establishing the High Speed Rail Authority and updating the business case for this nation-building project.  Running along the East Coast from Melbourne to Brisbane, with stops in Canberra, Sydney and regional centres, high speed rail will change the lives of millions of Australians, allowing

*** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Thank you for the invitation to join you today. I begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we gather – the Gadigal of the Eora Nation – and pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging. It is so lovely to be back in