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Treasurer Rita Saffioti speaking with media today.

WA gets mystery $650 million road funding pledge in late-night letter

The promise came in the form of a letter sent to WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti’s office on federal budget day which revealed WA would receive 2 per cent of new infrastructure spending.

  • Hamish Hastie and Heather McNeill

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What we know about the budget so far

Jim Chalmers will present his fourth budget on Tuesday night. Here’s what we already know will be in the pre-election fiscal blueprint.

  • Shane Wright
Greater Western Water.

Troubled water company’s $150m bailout over botched billing system

Greater Western Water has been propped up with a multimillion-dollar cash injection, has lost its chairman and is under investigation over customer billing.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
Staff at Wyndham’s nibrary lounge in Williams Landing.

The space squeeze shutting families out of libraries, public pools

Ease of access to a local pool or library has become a marker of relative advantage in Melbourne. The gap is widening for the city’s fastest-growing communities.

  • Adam Carey
The Oculus in New York.

This New York train station was the world’s most expensive. Sunshine may have it beat

The architecturally splendid Oculus, at New York’s rebuilt World Trade Centre, cost $US4 billion to build. Sunshine station could give the record a nudge.

  • Chip Le Grand

Melbourne’s growing stamp duty headache

Stamp duty should be phased out and replaced with a residential land tax over the next 30 years, Infrastructure Victoria says in a new report.

  • Adam Carey
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New modelling has flagged increases to wholesale electricity prices for the rest of the decade.

Power bills forecast to soar in Victoria

Electricity costs are set to double over the next five years even if the state meets its renewable energy targets, according to new projections.

  • Kieran Rooney
The “Eastern Harbour City” is one of six cities named in the plan.

Sydney had a 20-year plan for growth. The government is ditching it

A key planning document that talked about Sydney as a region made up of six cities has been quietly deleted by the state government.

  • Anthony Segaert
Rosemary West, Janina Wierzbicki and Doug Klein are concerned about proposed planning changes.

The high-rise towers planned for this bayside suburb will shock most people, residents say

Maps reveal the height caps for new apartment and office buildings in the streets of six suburbs set to host Suburban Rail Loop stations.

  • Daniella White
Gill Gannon and Bea Tomlin, who help co-ordinate the Keep Champion Road Open group.

Council staff refuse to sign secrecy deals over hated level-crossing plan

The council will now only communicate with the Level Crossing Removal Project in writing.

  • Sophie Aubrey

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