CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Good to be with you, Patricia.  KARVELAS: Just starting on the COVID related news first. Do you support the New South Wales government’s approach to pausing all construction?  KING: Well, I don’t think they’ve got a choice given what’s happening with the Delta strain in New South Wales.

SUBJECT: Car Park Rorts, lockdowns. RAF EPSTEIN, HOST: Catherine, did we learn anything different today? I mean, we sort of knew what the auditors had to say. Did we learn anything substantially different today?  CATHERINE KING: Yeah, a couple of things. I think the first was obviously this top 20 marginal seats that seemed to

The Morrison Government has no plan where Inland Rail will start, where it will end, the route it will take or how it will interact with existing stations up and down the country – but that hasn’t stopped ministers from talking up the supposed benefits of this project.  Just today, the Deputy Prime Minister has

Today’s announcement from the Victorian Labor Government that they will invest $986 million to build 25 brand-new X’Trapolis 2.0 trains right here in Australia is a welcome example of a government harnessing its infrastructure investment to support Australian jobs and maintain local industries. Labor governments know that building trains here creates more jobs, trains young

ADDRESS TO THE QUEENSLAND MAJOR PROJECTS SYMPOSIUM INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERSHIPS AUSTRALIABRISBANE TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021 *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY ***   Introduction & Acknowledgments Thank you very much Adrian and can I thank Infrastructure Partnerships Australia and all of you for the opportunity to address you today. It’s a real pleasure to be back in the Sunshine State! I’d like to

The Morrison Government’s Commuter Carpark debacle has widened overnight, with another five promised carparks joining South Morang on the chopping block. Coming just weeks before the release of a highly anticipated ANAO report, the latest development in this rolling fiasco of an infrastructure program means that commuters at Brighton Beach, Balaclava, Mitcham, Kananook and Seaford

Labor is deeply troubled by reports in the Guardian Australia yesterday that the federal Department of Infrastructure has purchased environmental offsets associated with Western Sydney Airport from organisations and individuals who have consulted for government on those very same projects.  The Morrison Government must urgently explain the expenditure of $37.5 million on the selected offset sites. What

DARWIN THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021 *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY ***  Thank you very much for the invitation to address you all today. After a year of meeting over zoom, remotely delivering speeches and cancelled interstate trips, it is a pleasure to once more stand in front of a crowd of friendly faces. We might not be back to normal

After spending all day on Monday talking about their supposed record investment in infrastructure, a close read of the Budget Papers reveals the reality of more cuts and years-long delays to the projects Australians need.  What the Morrison Government press release didn’t tell us is that there will be a $3.3 billion cut to infrastructure

E&OE TRANSCRIPTRADIO INTERVIEWSCA RADIO AUSTRALIA TODAY WITH STEVE PRICETUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021 SUBJECTS: Morrison Government’s latest infrastructure announcements; 2021 Budget, Tourism, Affordable housing. STEVE PRICE, HOST: Figures compiled by the Australian Automobile Association, according to the Australian Financial Review today, show that $4.4 billion has been committed in the last five budgets, a shortfall of