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Infrastructure Is a Road Half Travelled

You could be forgiven for thinking Australia’s infrastructure problems are all due to a lack of funding by the states and not relevant to the coming federal election. You would be wrong.

Many of Australia’s infrastructure problems can be traced to a failure of federal–state relations, and addressing these problems should feature heavily in the coming federal election campaign.

From op-ed titled ‘Infrastructure Is a Road Half Travelled’ By Rod Sims, The Australian Financial Review, 4 October 2007, p. 63