Yesterday’s leak that tonight’s Federal Budget will allocate $24.5 billion to major infrastructure projects, including federal contributions to rail projects in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, has failed to impress Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) CEO, Adrian Dwyer.
Last week, Dwyer accused the Turnbull Government of reducing infrastructure investment and called for an extra $7.5 billion in infrastructure spending over the next four years to offset a decline in such expenditure over the last decade:
