Perth Freight Link tenderers join unpopularity contest

2015-10-27

 Greens Member for South Metropolitan Lynn MacLaren MLC has warned successful tenderers for the  Perth Freight Link that they have signed up for a battle with the community from which they stand to  lose.

 “It seemed likely the Leighton Holdings-led consortium would be awarded this tender, ever since  Leighton Holdings’ 2012 position paper on the next 12 roads it wanted to build in Australia, including  Perth Freight Link, was seemingly adopted by the Liberals as party policy,” Ms MacLaren said.

“Certainly there are no other reasons for funnelling scarce infrastructure funds into this project.

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