Minister Catherine King to say ‘undeliverable’ schemes will be scrapped; report shows more people leaving cities and moving between regions
Thirteen regional local government areas around the country recorded a jump in net internal migration levels of more than 100 percent through 2022 – with regional Queensland and Victoria taking the largest share of movers, according to the December quarter regional movers index by the Commonwealth Bank and Regional Australia Institute.
This included the top five highest growth regional areas of Port Pirie (South Australia), Gladstone (Queensland), Murray Bridge (South Australia), Glen Innes (New South Wales), York (Western Australia) which all recorded a jump of more than 200% in 2022.
Without getting too political – we have to work out which projects are actually deliverable, and which were just political window dressing. These are not easy decisions to take, but I would rather be honest with people now than do what the previous government did – building hope that a undeliverable project would one day be built
The simple fact is that the past decade, where we have had the Liberal and National parties treat the infrastructure investment pipeline as their election fund, has been one of significant lost opportunity. They chose to spend money on commuter car parks, urban congestion projects and roads of strategic importance that miraculously seemed to largely only be needed in Liberal and National Party held seats.
That is why I am so determined that commonwealth investment is targeted – that we invest in the projects that deliver productivity growth, connect communities and deliver both economic and social returns.
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