The Hon Warren Truss MP The new Federal Government’s renewed focus on infrastructure investment shows its importance as a driver for economic and productivity growth, says Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, The Hon Warren Truss MP. It is a pleasure for me to give you some indication of what the Coalition actually plans to do, as distinct from what we were promising to do in the lead-up to the Federal Election. In doing so, I want to assure you there’s no difference between the two, but we are getting on with it now. As the new Coalition Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, I have been tasked with the particular responsibility to help Tony Abbott become the ‘infrastructure Prime Minister’ of Australia. Our task, jointly as Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, is to get the country moving again, to get it building again; developing a plan and platform to ensure that we continue to roll out infrastructure into the future in an affordable and effective way.
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Together with [Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development] Jamie Briggs, we look forward to implementing the Coalition’s ambitious plan to build the infrastructure of the 21st century. There isn’t likely to be a single solution that’s appropriate to fund infrastructure in every instance. Some projects will lend themselves to a particular funding model that may not work in another instance. What may be very successful in achieving one piece of infrastructure development may not be successfully replicated elsewhere. We will always have to be innovative, and be prepared to be adventurous. But on the other hand, particularly when it comes to Government money, we will be conscious of the need to always ensure that the investments we make are sound, that we
