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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the Metro Tunnel on Sunday.

Metro Tunnel opening set, more funds for Suburban Rail Loop in bumper day for Big Build

The long-anticipated opening of the $15.5 billion project has been unveiled, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed more money for the Suburban Rail Loop.

  • Kieran Rooney

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The government wants to be able to spend developer contributions outside the growth areas they were collected.

Controversial planning laws could divert vital funding from booming suburbs

The tax is intended to be spent building roads, public transport and schools in growing suburbs. Changes mean the money could be spent anywhere.

  • Daniella White
A tunnel boring machine in the Metro Tunnel in 2020.

SRL executives spent more than $330,000 to attend tunnelling conferences, woo builders

Three executives spent $95,000 on a 10-day trip to Europe.

  • Kieran Rooney
Suburban Rail Loop Authority CEO Frankie Carroll.

The FIFO CEO: Rail Loop boss commutes from Queensland

The chief executive of the Suburban Rail Loop Authority has been living in Brisbane and bills taxpayers when he needs to fly back to Melbourne on short notice.

  • Kieran Rooney
Suburban Rail Loop construction in Clayton.

Labor-led committee backs calls for new costing of Suburban Rail Loop

The parliamentary committee has urged the Allan government to provide new analysis and details of the taxes it plans to use for the $34.5 billion project.

  • Kieran Rooney
Commuters at Tarneit station in peak hour.

A second Metro Tunnel would have changed life in the west. Then the SRL came along

A rail tunnel to the CBD designed to ease commuter crush in the west and north-east, due to open as early as 2030, was shelved in favour of the Suburban Rail Loop.

  • Patrick Hatch
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Premier Jacinta Allan flanked by Labor Minister Vicki Ward (left) and former minister Jaala Pulford.

State government knew about Big Build threats years before court action

Senior Victorian politicians promised to handle claims of union coercion on Big Build sites in the lead up to the 2022 state election. Nothing eventuated.

  • David Marin-Guzman and Nick McKenzie
Four tunnel boring machines will be shipped to Melbourne to help Suburban Rail Loop construction.

Point of no return: New deal for Suburban Rail Loop makes it too expensive to cancel

Four extra tunnel boring machines will be in the ground before the November 2026 state election, adding to the $5 billion in taxpayer money sunk into the transport project.

  • Chip Le Grand
An artist’s impression of how the area around the SRL’s Clayton station might look.

A flawed scheme delivered no affordable homes. It’s now planned for the Suburban Rail Loop

A decade-long plan giving developers incentives to build affordable homes in central Melbourne has failed to produce a single one.

  • Daniella White and Kieran Rooney
All freight rail from Ballarat and Geelong will have to pass through a single section of track at Newport (pictured).

How a quiet rail closure could swamp western suburbs with trucks

The move in Melbourne’s west is likely to push thousands of tonnes of goods onto trucks, worsening road congestion and pollution.

  • Patrick Hatch and Kieran Rooney

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