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ALT Wentworth MP Allegra Spender yesterday moved an amendment to the Infrastructure Australia bill aimed at stamping out pork-barrelling, requiring a cost-benefit analysis of any project worth more than $100 million – it’s the same amendment Anthony Albanese himself unsuccessfully put when he was shadow infrastructure minister. As Spender pointed out, you’d have thought this was “an uncontroversial amendment, one which simply requires public money be used prudently and one which was previously proposed by the prime minister himself”. But, alas, it seems “the ALP’s commitment to integrity didn’t survive the move to the government benches”, as Spender tweeted this morning. Labor and the Coalition teamed up to vote down the amendment, with Infrastructure Minister Catherine King defending the move by claiming some information was too sensitive to be released. The amendment would have still left the decision to invest in a project in the hands of the government, but would have limited the power

ALT sky news .COM.AU Sky News Australia @SkyNewsAust The Greens are facing a 48-hour deadline to back the Albanese government's climate change policy amid warnings that the 2030 emissions reduction target will be put in jeopardy if they don't support the bill. skynews.com.au Greens risk putting Australia's 2030 emissions target in jeopardy The Greens are facing a 48-hour deadline to back the Albanese government's climate change policy amid warnings that the 2030 emissions reduction target will be put in... 10:05 PM Mar 21, 2023 1,245 Views