Suburban Rail Loop
Fly-in, fly-out Suburban Rail Loop boss to leave $900,000 job
A month after details of his living arrangements were revealed, the SRL boss is stepping down.
- Kieran Rooney and Isabel McMillan
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- Public service
Public service report casts a harsh light on state’s spending
The government’s ambitions have galloped far ahead of its capacity to pay for or properly deliver them.
- The Age's View
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- Metro Tunnel
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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- Planning
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
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
- Exclusive
- Victorian Parliament
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
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
- Exclusive
- Go west
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
- Exclusive
- Building Bad
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
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
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