Media Release from Leader of the Opposition Lia Finocchiaro:
After 8 years of delays, Eva Lawler cannot be trusted to deliver Darwin’s Ship Lift.
Labor is all talk and no action – this is the 40th Labor press release on the ship lift and not even one sod has been turned.
This is just more incompetence from a Labor Government who cannot deliver.
It has taken Eva Lawler 8 years, as Infrastructure Minister and now Chief Minister, to finally get to the stage of just announcing the preferred builder of the Ship Lift.
This project started off at a cost of $100 million and now it’s blown out to over $515 million.
Project delays are expensive. The longer the project is delayed, the cost overrun starts to increase at an exponential rate. The opportunity cost also makes the Territory less competitive.
Our plan to kick start the economy includes slashing project approval times by 50%, supporting small business, getting rid of Labor’s destructive hybrid mining tax and installing a Territory Co-ordinator who will ensure projects are fought for, started quickly and completed on time.
