Infrastructure is the latest area of Morrison Government incompetence exposed by fresh data from the Bureau of Statistics. Alan Austin reports.

WHEN HISTORIANS survey the damage done to Australia’s economic, social and physical environment by arguably the least competent government in the Westminster world since the Second World War, infrastructure failure will be high on their list. This area of mismanagement has been one of the most destructive. And most hypocritical.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed us last week that total investment by all state and federal governments in construction projects for the full financial year 2018-19 was just $46.1 billion. That might seem okay at a glance. But it isn’t.
Remember, the world is now in its fifth year of an extraordinary upswing in international investment and commerce. This is in dramatic contrast to the global recession which devastated the world from 2008 to 2012.

So infrastructure spending last financial year should have broken all records. This could have been the year which fixed congestion on Australia’s capital city roads, trains, trams and buses, once and for all.

The opposite has happened. Infrastructure spending declined last year. Public transport stress worsened. So did the condition of bridges, reservoirs, regional airports, railway stations, remote housing and other vital infrastructure.

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