ALP pressures Turnbull on WA Freight Link

Labor is stepping up its calls for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to scrap or at the very least review the controversial $1.76 billion Perth Freight Link project.

West Australian opposition MPs want Mr Turnbull to abandon the project, with state Labor leader Mark McGowan saying $1 billion in Commonwealth funding pledged by former prime minister Tony Abbott was a "captain's call" and should instead be used for urban rail.

On Wednesday, Labor Member for Perth Alannah MacTiernan said Mr Turnbull "must prove Australia is truly under new management" and commit to an immediate review of federal funding for the project, which also has the Greens up in arms as it will cut a swathe through the Beeliar wetlands.