Criticism
With the large budgets allocated to transport projects, AusLink is promoted in highlighting government spending on infrastructure.
However organisations such as the Australian Automobile Association are outspoken in their criticism that the spending equates to less than 15% of the excise the federal government collects on petrol, is spent on road related projects.
There was also criticism of the program from some quarters claiming that it was nothing more than a pork barrelling exercise by the government.
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