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WestConnex audit offers another $17b lesson in how not to fund infrastructure

  • Written by Marion Terrill, Transport Program Director, Grattan Institute

The way we throw money at major transport projects almost guarantees billions of Australian taxpayers’ dollars are wasted. Australian Auditor-General Grant Hehir has released yet another damning report on the process behind the A$16.8 billion investment in Sydney’s WestConnex motorway, Australia’s biggest infrastructure project...

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