Victoria’s gas crisis and a looming supply shortfall are set to stretch Victorian budgets even further, with claims manufacturers will “have no choice but to pass through cost increases”.
The Allan government has defended its multi-decade plan to connect the west with the Suburban Rail Loop after criticism residents have been “strung along”.
A bombshell document that the state government fought to bury for three years reveals Suburban Rail Loop bosses wanted to hide details of how much the monster project would cost.
Allan government bureaucrats issued a directive on buses that threatens 1350 jobs and poses safety risks to “kids, older people and the broader community”.
A Sunday Herald Sun investigation has uncovered Victoria’s public transport ticketing upgrade is at least a year behind schedule, with secret timelines revealing the extent of the delays.
As a federal election looms, the Albanese government has decided to put more money into Melbourne’s Airport Rail but without federal funding for the SRL, the Allan government is out of the loop.
Jacinta Allan has vowed to “keep fighting” for two of the state’s major rail infrastructure projects, after a federal government cash promise for Melbourne Airport Rail put pressure on the Suburban Rail Loop.
Tenants’ and homeless services groups, as well as some Labor figures, have expressed their dismay at the Andrews and Allan governments’ major delay to a housing review.
A Victorian Building Authority worker is among dozens of people charged by the state’s anti-corruption commission after an investigation into bribes being paid for building registrations.
A Sunday Herald Sun investigation has uncovered part of the consortium overseeing the $1.7bn myki revamp for credit card and phone touch on has walked away from the lucrative deal.
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