The release today of Infrastructure Australia’s list of priorities for investment, while we were hearing about the renegotiation of the massive mining tax, shows how little Mr Albanese has delivered. As the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Mr Albanese has a very loud bark but as far as delivery goes, he has a very small bite. He has pointed out how good the government is for putting Infrastructure Australia together, but the truth of the matter is, they have not actually delivered any of the projects that this organisation list as imperative for the nation’s economic growth.

Infrastructure Australia has been compromised by the wastage on trinkets such as school halls, the insulation debacle and $900 cheques. Labor has no money to build the dams, the railway lines and the roads which would have actually increased the size of the economy and helped us pay off the massive debt they accumulated for us.

 Mr Albanese has let the debt grow to approximately $150 billion gross without delivery on nation building infrastructure. The inland rail remains only a dream thanks to Mr Albanese.

The money wasted on school halls could have duplicated the Pacific Highway all the way from Sydney to Brisbane and a large way up the Queensland coast. The ceiling insulation debacle could have built the tunnel through the Toowoomba Range and the money from the $900 cheques could have built a rail line from Mt Isa through to Darwin and probably much of the way to Port Headland.

 Mr Albanese, everywhere you look you see nothing. The infrastructure list shows that he truly is the Minister for Nothingness, playing second fiddle to Prime Minister Gillard of “School Halls” fame.