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The government just killed 50 infrastructure projects – what matters is whether it will fund them on merit from now on

  • Written by Jago Dodson, Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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The federal government has just announced a list of projects to be abandoned as a result of an independent strategic review of its infrastructure investment program.

The review found the cost of the A$120 billion, ten-year program had blown out by $32.8 billion, half of which was in projects not yet under construction.

But the flaws in...

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