‘Business case didn’t stack up’: McKenzie slams Suburban Rail Loop

Samantha Hutchinson and Mark Ludlow

Updated Nov 22, 2022 – 4.05pm, first published at 9.26am

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Coalition infrastructure spokeswoman Bridget McKenzie has attacked the Albanese government’s decision to hand out $2.2 billon to Daniel Andrews’ Suburban Rail Loop project ahead of the Victoria’s state election as “politics”, saying the business case “didn’t stack up”.

“There was no reason other than politics for that project to be announced in the October budget. That could have waited until the review [of Infrastructure Australia] had been completed,” the senator told The Australian Financial Review’s National Infrastructure Summit.

Samantha Hutchinson is the AFR's National Reporter. Most recently, she was CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Before that, she covered Victorian and NSW politics and business for The Australian, the AFR and BRW Magazine.

Mark Ludlow writes on politics, energy and infrastructure based in Brisbane.