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Care to cite a PT project funded by the feds? I can't really talk for other states but certainly nothing here in Melbourne.

I would be very surprised. Gillard proposed to fund a rail tunnel in Sydney and that never happened as far as I'm aware first time a fed govt has gone anywhere near PT.

I would suggest you go look at some State budgets. They can fund PT if they so choose.

Where you say pedantically sticking to the constitution well yeh its the rules by which government operate so unless the High Court allows it the constitution rules. That's not to say feds can't fund PT but as a supporter of States rights and a competitive federalism I would hate to see bureaucrats in Canberra getting their mits into PT projects.