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senate vote 2015-10-14#2
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Luke Bacon
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2015-11-03 10:43:23
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<p class="speaker">Matthew Canavan</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That the Senate notes:</p>- The Senate voted to pass the motion put forward by [Senator Matthew Canavan](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/queensland/matthew_canavan):
- > That the Senate notes:
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- > (a) the Commonwealth Government is investing $50 billion in infrastructure;
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- > (b) that as part of the Government's investment in infrastructure, it has committed to providing up to $95 million dollars to support the completion of the Gold Coast Light Rail Stage Two project prior to the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games; and
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- > (c) the importance of significant funding proposals being accompanied by detailed business cases and subject to a full assessment process, including by Infrastructure Australia, if $100 million or more of Commonwealth funding is sought, to ensure value for taxpayers' money.
<p class="italic">(a) the Commonwealth Government is investing $50 billion in infrastructure;</p><p class="italic">(b) that as part of the Government's investment in infrastructure, it has committed to providing up to $95 million dollars to support the completion of the Gold Coast Light Rail Stage Two project prior to the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games; and</p><p class="italic">(c) the importance of significant funding proposals being accompanied by detailed business cases and subject to a full assessment process, including by Infrastructure Australia, if $100 million or more of Commonwealth funding is sought, to ensure value for taxpayers' money.</p> <p class="speaker">Claire Moore</p><p>I seek leave to make a short statement.</p> <p class="speaker">Stephen Parry</p><p>Leave is granted for one minute.</p> <p class="speaker">Claire Moore</p><p>Labor was not consulted on the wording of this motion. In fact, the coalition cut $2 billion from infrastructure project funding between the 2014 and 2015 budgets, including over $1 billion this year. Labor strongly supports proper assessment of project business cases and notes the hypocrisy of this motion, given the government's failure to properly assess East West Link, WestConnex and Perth freight link prior to allocating funds. The federal Labor government supported the highly-successful stage one of the Gold Coast light rail, which the coalition then opposed. Labor welcomes the decision of the current government to fund public transport projects. It is now the time for action after two lost years.</p> <p class="speaker">Stephen Parry</p><p>The question is that the motion moved by Senator Canavan be agreed to.</p>
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