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Bridget McKenzie says rollback of inland rail project sends chill' through community

Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie, the shadow minister for infrastructure, said the Labor party has sent a chill through the infrastructure pipeline" after the Albanese government abandoned a beleaguered inland rail project connecting NSW with Queensland.

People were surprised and shocked and dismayed at this announcement by the Labor government, they've been making their concerns heard loud and clear.

This Labor government has actually derailed this project and, indeed, sent a chill through the infrastructure pipeline investment community because no project would now be safe from some future government turning off the tap.

You're cutting the wrong things, not the things that are going to drive a productive economy.