Readers respond to the Allan government’s controversial Suburban Rail Loop, new myki troubles, and the implications of Trump’s election win.
”, 10/11). The second set of Suburban Rail Loop tunnels – 10 kilometres from Glen Waverley to Box Hill – has been contracted for $1.7 billion. The first – 17 kilometres from Cheltenham to Glen Waverley – was contracted earlier this year for $3.6 billion. Add the $2 billion of early works, and the total current commitment is $7.3 billion.
Disputed blowouts on Metro and the Westgate Tunnel have made projects uneconomic for contractors. We’re at the point where no sane provider of services in the global marketplace is willing to tender for Victorian projects, due to the ineptitude of our processes and inability to control rogue construction unions or co-ordinate utilities and other essential services. Serious players have walked away, leaving us prey to “chancers”.
reports that Gina Rinehart has increased her wealth from $28.89 billion in 2020 to over $40 billion in 2024. It is also mean spirited to make these changes retrospective so that people receiving their salary are cut off. No law should be made retrospective no matter the mischief it is intended to change – and there is no mischief here on claimants’ part., 11/11) quotes planning experts as saying opportunities for increasing Melbourne’s housing stock are being lost because existing lots are being subdivided only into two.
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