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Delays, ditched designs and hospital damage: Leaked report reveals Metro Tunnel woes
Unfinished stations and budget issues are plaguing the $14 billion mega-rail project as it battles fresh delays and potential compensation claims.
- by Clay Lucas
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Brisbane 2032 Olympics
The Brisbane Olympics are eight years away. Time for a reality check
Progress has been thwarted by decisions and (healthy) debate, but has it meant we’ve lost our way? Can we still leverage the Games for the city’s wellbeing?
- by Courtney Kruk
The train accident that changed Gwen’s life forever
Gwen Hohnke was 17 years old when she found out her fiance had just gone under a train wagon while working at a railway yard.
- by Catherine Naylor
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Victoria ignored Infrastructure Australia for two years on SRL details
Billions of dollars in funding Victoria wants for the Suburban Rail Loop has been held up for almost two years because the state refuses to hand over information.
- by Annika Smethurst and Kieran Rooney
Jacinta Allan has some time to delay airport rail, but not for long
Why has a popular project to connect Melbourne to the airport by rail and invest in the western suburbs become a political quagmire?
- by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Melbourne Airport agrees to have overground train station, clearing path for rail link
The announcement ends a stalemate with the state government that had pushed the airport rail link back to 2033.
- by Rachel Eddie and Kieran Rooney
Airport prepares fight after mediator backs skyrail for Tullamarine
An underground station should not be built at Melbourne Airport unless the airport operators show it makes commercial sense, a federal report has found.
- by Kieran Rooney and Patrick Hatch
‘The state will need to pay more’: Metro Tunnel costs blow out once again
Electromagnetic interference blamed for the relocation of the Arden hospital precinct could continue to haunt the $14 billion Metro Tunnel, according to the Auditor-General.
- by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
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Victorian Parliament
Melbourne Airport Rail mediator also advising state-run rail authority
The federal and state governments say there’s no conflict of interest in the mediator between Melbourne Airport and the state of Victoria while also consulting for another state agency.
- by Kieran Rooney and Patrick Hatch
As it happened: WA news on Wednesday, 5 June
Barely recovered from the last supply chain crisis, WA’s getting a new one; the million dollar club’s got new members; and there’s a new instalment in our People of Perth series.
- by Heather McNeill
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Roads
More trucks on roads feared as long-promised freight hub in Melbourne’s west put on ice
Premier Jacinta Allan once said the Western Intermodal Freight Terminal should be the ‘first cab off the rank’ to be built. Her government has deferred it indefinitely.
- by Kieran Rooney