Urban Infrastructure Minister Alan Tudge has called on the states to lift their investment in infrastructure to help stimulate the Australian economy, claiming they have greater capacity than the Commonwealth. From The AFR:
The federal government is prepared, where possible, to fast-track infrastructure projects but says the states have the greatest capacity to pick up the pace…
Writing in today’s The Australian Financial Review, [Alan Tudge] contends the federal government’s infrastructure plans “are already supporting the economy” and “if the states can accelerate further, then our economy will be stronger still”…
