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Dam blowout: don’t blame rain, says Seselja

OPPOSITION Leader Zed Seselja says ACT Labor’s attempts to blame the Extended Cotter Dam project’s budget blowout on the March floods was made a mockery today when figures revealed the blowout had occurred before the rain began.

It was a motion from the Opposition last week that prompted the two documents to be tabled in the Assembly today by deputy Chief Minister and Treasurer Andrew Barr.

Seselja said water prices had already increased by 200 per cent since ACT Labor came to power and Canberrans will now once again be stung with even higher prices due to Labor’s inability to manage infrastructure projects.

“Contingency planning really comes down to a question of basic competence, a test which ACT Labor has abjectly failed,”  Seselja said.

“Their short-term thinking on infrastructure has left Canberrans footing the bill for their budget blowouts and it’s unacceptable.”

However Barr says the Opposition will do what oppositions do, but any objective assessment would recognise the circumstances that confronted the project.

“The team have undertaken what is a really significant infrastructure project for the city and [people should] recognise they are working very hard to complete a very important piece of infrastructure for Canberra and Canberra’s future,” he said.

 

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