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An artist impression of the precinct around the rail loop’s Cheltenham Station.

Is private office space a public good? SRL density plan suggests so

Housing advocates have warned that social and affordable housing along the rail line could be diminished.

  • Kieran Rooney and Patrick Hatch

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Whitehorse Council is seeking $6.9 million more for the loss of Sinnott Street Reserve for a Suburban Rail Loop station in Burwood.

Suburban Rail Loop park takeover sparks $7m compo fight

The SRL project seized control of a park to build a station – now it’s locked in a multimillion-dollar dispute with an eastern suburbs council.

  • Patrick Hatch
Premier Jacinta Allan at the Suburban Rail Loop site in Burwood on Sunday.

Suburban Rail Loop could save commuters 40 minutes but cost remains unknown

The Allan government has spruiked the project’s time-saving potential, but the opposition says that’s not good enough.

  • Ashleigh McMillan
Commuters wait on the platform during the morning peak hour at Tarneit train station.

Melbourne’s transport divide: The Allan government’s priorities are off track

Residents in Melbourne’s fast-growing northern and western suburbs cannot continue to be so poorly connected to the rest of our city if our economy is to prosper.

  • The Age's View
Jacinta Allan has claimed Labor’s federal election victory as a win for the Suburban Rail Loop.

Allan has time to abandon Melbourne’s gargantuan folly. But it’s about to run out

If Labor dumped the Suburban Rail Loop it would waste an obscene quantity of taxpayer dollars. But it’s the right thing to do when you consider the alternative.

  • Chip Le Grand
Workers at a Suburban Rail Loop construction site in Heatherton.

New charge for Victoria’s state-backed insurer of Suburban Rail Loop

The government is raising a “capital management” fee to help bring its Victorian Managed Insurance Authority back to financial health.

  • Kieran Rooney
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A Suburban Rail Loop construction site.

Premier concedes soaring costs a risk to Suburban Rail Loop

Since 2021 Australia had recorded a 22 per cent increase in the cost of construction.

  • Kieran Rooney and Daniella White
Trains operating between Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham through the Metro Tunnel will take passengers for the first time - but not through the tunnel itself.

Busy train lines closing for works as Metro Tunnel trial looms

Passengers will board trains bound for the Metro Tunnel and its five new stations for the first time, but will need to wait to travel through the tunnel itself.

  • Patrick Hatch
Jaclyn Symes delivers her first budget.

Public services face $3b cut, 1200 jobs to go, but state’s debt just keeps climbing

Booming property taxes are delivering windfalls to the Allan government, but still can’t stem Victoria’s soaring debt and mounting interest bill.

  • Kieran Rooney
The Treasurer Jaclyn Symes delivers her budget speech in parliament, with Premier Jacinta Allan next to her.

Symes’ budget baby steps no match for her fast spending

Jaclyn Symes was gifted an unexpected $3.7 billion GST windfall, but the money barely lasted two months in the new treasurer’s hands.

  • Chip Le Grand

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