‘We’re getting dudded’: Kean accuses Canberra of favouring Labor states with infrastructure spending | angusthomson_ AlexSmithSMH
the split of the federal government’s $9.6 billion infrastructure spendNSW treasurer Matt Kean said the state had been “dudded” by the Commonwealth in its $9.6 billion infrastructure announcement on Sunday.NSW Treasurer Matt Kean accused Canberra of playing politics with the allocation of funds towards states with Labor governments.
NSW Minister for Transport and Western Sydney David Elliott said the state government had given the Albanese government a long list of infrastructure projects that desperately need funding in western sydney, around the aerotropolis and in regional NSW. “We had a slightly different relationship in opposition with the Victorians as we did with NSW, so we didn’t really have a lot of projects on the table from opposition with them,” she said. “But we’ll talk to the NSW government in the lead-up to the May budget as to where their priorities are.”
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