Labor should walk the talk on infrastructure integrity
It will be challenging enough to deliver the nation’s large infrastructure pipeline on time and on budget. It therefore beggars belief that Labor’s IR bill would risk turning the CFMEU loose on major projects.
The Australian Financial Review Infrastructure Summit heard that federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine King plans to pick up where her Labor predecessor in the portfolio, Anthony Albanese, left off a decade ago.
With the independent review of Infrastructure Australia sitting on her desk, Ms King indicated that Labor plans to legislate to revive the role and purpose of the national body that Mr Albanese set up in 2008 to provide governments with expert, apolitical advice on major projects.
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