Anthony Albanese has said $7bn will be poured into Melbourne’s Airport Rail link, saying the project had been delayed for too long, as he joined some of the state’s most influential figures at a Herald Sun Future Victoria event.
Twenty-five years ago thousands of tiny Victorians were born into a Smith family, but as Victoria’s multicultural population explodes, these are the new surnames taking over.
Crumbling suburban roads and a key part of Melbourne’s rail line to the airport will be the focus of a $1.2bn landmark partnership between the federal and state Labor governments.
Moon rovers will become the new Ford Ranger for dozens of tradies desperately needed to help space companies explore life beyond Earth. This is how you can get your ticket to the moon.
Sydney restaurant king Justin Hemmes will transform an eight-storey Melbourne CBD carpark into a major entertainment hub with a boutique hotel, sky garden, shops, restaurants and bars.
Western Melbourne Group releases blueprints for a new sports, health and entertainment city to be built in Melbourne’s outer south west.
Crown Melbourne will redevelop and expand one of its key entertainment spaces as it looks to host Broadway shows and ramp up its offering of international musicians and comedians.
Airport bosses are looking for global inspiration to bring thousands more passengers and jobs to one of the state’s fastest-growing areas, eyeing a new 4km driverless shuttle that would link the precinct to existing rail networks.
The long-awaited $10.2bn West Gate Tunnel is set to change Melbourne’s roads for good, and it’s due to open by the end of the year.
Victoria will be fighting to save the back yard over the next 25 years after decades of shrinkage have turned it into a thin green line smaller than a cricket pitch.
Hundreds of hi-tech Automatic Incident Detection cameras are set to be installed allowing traffic controllers in Transurban’s new state-of-the-art facility to control incidents in real time.
A critical key step to encouraging Melburnians to become regular swimmers in the Yarra River may be the installation of a floating sauna and adjoining plunge pool in the city stretch of the waterway.
Fish scraps contribute to up to 90,000 tonnes of waste in Australia each year, but a research team is proposing a solution – transform the by-products into collagen.
Step inside the Melbourne lab that wants to change medicine with new technology, including a mini ‘brain’ trained to act like it’s inside a human — and grown in just three weeks.
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