Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie is questioned about integrity of how any future projects would be chosen for funding by a future Coalition government (sports rorts looms large)

McKenzie tells the ABC:

It’s a legislated fund with an independent analysis of the impact of any government’s decision-making on the state of the regions, that will be tabled in Parliament, and this information will inform ministers on where they need to invest that money.

Now, you talk about child care – I mean, we don’t even have child care centres in many regional centres. That’s the problem. When we see Labor Governments come to power, as we have seen under Anthony Albanese, in their very first budget, they cut $10 billion of regional programs from the Federal Budget. They have also cut, delayed and cancelled regional road projects right across the country. So that’s what happens when the Labor Party gets in and it doesn’t matter who holds seats, they just cut it to regional Australia