Business wants the Albanese government to maintain a predominantly independent board to oversee Infrastructure Australia, welcoming a major shake-up set to better connect the advisory body and federal cabinet., part of plans to ditch an unwieldy priority list and improve co-ordination with state government advisers.
Mr Dwyer welcomed moves to better position Infrastructure Australia to advise government decision-making, which he said would enhance its timely and relevant advice. “Today’s announcement of a supposed refresh for Infrastructure Australia, in fact, a return to an outdated advisory model that was initiated under Anthony Albanese in 2008,” Senator McKenzie said., who had appointed former Tamworth mayor Col Murray as the board’s chairman, alongside a vice president of Queensland’s Liberal National Party, a former LNP state candidate and a former Liberal branch president.
Ms King has ordered a refined, smaller infrastructure priority list, cutting extensive cost-benefit analyses of dozens of projects around the country, few of which are ever funded by the government.
'Business wants' embraced a multitude; so who precisely wants this. I suspect it is only a few purporting to represent the multitude; without the multitude's endorsement - Just stating a FACT.