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Federal government in conversation' with NSW about Warragamba dam wall

King is asked about how the infrastructure spend is being divvied up with New South Wales clearly getting less than Labor-lead states. King says the decisions were based on the projects that had been submitted to the federal government ahead of the budget.

We will work with the New South Wales government as we lead into the May budget.

Of course we will look at it. At this stage we don't have enough information from the New South Wales government on which to make a decision.

There is back and forth between Infrastructure Australia and the New South Wales department and I haven't seen any of that yet.

This is for the early works of this project. We haven't made any further commitments. We will talk to the Victorians around that as we go forward. They have an election they are facing and this will be a contested project, I'm sure, but something we have confidence in.