CANBERRA, Oct.30 -- Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told Parliament that work will soon begin on two massive infrastructure projects, in Melbourne and Sydney, which he hoped would see him remembered as the country's 'Infrastructure Prime Minister'.

Developments on Victoria's East-West Link toll road and a second Sydney airport in the city's west have progressed in recent months, with Abbott confirming the Coalition's commitment to ensuring these plans are seen through.

In doing so, Abbott said the government would be delivering on several pre-election promises.

"I said that I hope to be the 'Infrastructure Prime Minister'," Abbott said on Thursday. "I am pleased to report progress in building the modern infrastructure that our country needs.

"Infrastructure does matter. It helps determine our quality of life, as well as our country's competitiveness, productivity and living standards."

The federal government is currently working closely alongside Victoria's state representatives in an effort to push through plans for the 6 billion U.S. dollar East-West Link.

On Thursday, Abbott revealed that the Coalition would fund close to half of the controversial 18-km toll road, which is set to create more than 6,000 jobs throughout the construction period.

"On Sept. 29, the Victorian government signed the contracts to build stage one of the East-West Link the Link has been inked so there can be no turning back from this major project that will help tens of thousands of Victorians every day," Abbott said.

The Prime Minister also confirmed Badgerys Creek as the location for Sydney's second airport and suggested construction would begin in 2016.

"For more than 50 years, governments have talked about a second airport for Sydney," Abbott continued. "Finally, and not before time, the talk is over. We've taken the final decision that Badgerys Creek will be the site of Sydney's second airport or, as I prefer, Western Sydney's first airport."

"The airport is irrevocable it is going ahead and construction should begin in 2016."

However, Labor's infrastructure spokesman, Anthony Albanese, criticized the Coalition's claims they were delivering on pre- election promises, saying that there are "no bulldozers at work, just bull dust".

Albanese also questioned where so much government funding was coming from. "We [Labor] didn't just throw money at new toll roads and say we're meeting the country's infrastructure needs," he said.

While giving the government some credit for the work it has been done on Badgerys Creek, Albanese said a rail line needs to be built to service the airport, not just roads.

"Despite going to the election giving Australians the impression it would maintain Labor's six-year focus on nation building, the government is struggling to deliver results," he said.

"It continues to present old Labor projects as though they are not new. It continues to treat its election promises as though their delivery was somehow optional."