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How come we couldn’t comment on the women charge with attempted murder if her children?
Interesting how Liberals has become the lazy party nowadays not wanting migrants or projects. Yes Labor is very bad now but Liberals is not a choice.
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Why would you take funding away from Sunshine Station upgrade which is the early works for Airport Rail? Whats the point of having a rail to the airport if there is a massive bottleneck at sunshine?
We are FED UP! 200 billion for something we do not need!
Probably wont happen. Our governments dont have a plan except shove in as many people as possible for 💰
Dutton is promising to take away everything and promising nothing in return.
no one wants the loop , its just jobs for the cfmeu, Victorias debt has been so cfmeu members have jobs ,
Peter Dutton. Like all politicians is just trying together through his term so he can collect that life long government pay check.
Your previous governments and their life long paycheck is what really is costing the taxpayer billions. And that the main reason there is no money for infrastructure upgrades.
Thank you sheep for continuing to support this madness.
after all the money spent on it already? that seems kinda dumb. while the budget was overblown, it doesn’t mean this project doesn’t have its merits.
Australian politicians are very good at starting, stopping, compensating, starting, stopping, compensating, starting, stopping, and compensating. Please act like a responsible adult, finish whatever is going on, and learn from the mistake for future projects.
They have tested the 373 mph land vehicle. Also the t-flight train. Just an example, a very QUICK AND SIMPLE EXAMPLE
Worst project tbh never should’ve continued. Airport and west suburbs need more help
There should be a corruption enquiry into the misuse of the funds and taxing on the local community.
It is the only thing I agree with Dutton on however 200 billion will be cheaper than the 500 – 700 billion that would be spent on building nuclear power plants
As victorians we need more taxes so that we can fund ALP's delusional agenda !
Labor only likes to help wealthy voters in eastern suburbs who dont even vote for them. They take loyalty foregranted
Pulling $2B from Sunshine and then investing $1.5B into Airport Rail is idiotic. The $2B Sunshine project is step 1 of Airport Rail, so they are effectively removing $500M of funding to Airport Rail and advertising it as an increase?
200 billion ?? Where does that ridiculous figure come from. Next month it will be 250. Where is all this money going
Why can't the State Government deliver infrastructure projects ahead of time and under budget. Why do we accept over budget and over time as "normal"?
Let’s stop the stop-starting, let’s just get it done I’m sure in 20 years we won’t be complaining
Where did the $200B figure come from?
Just cancel everything, sick & tired of this socialist government.
😂
This rail loop show how Governments think.
It will for part of the Airport rail link. So lets start it at the other end of the city in a marginal seat because the airport section is in a safe seat. But if they finished the airport link first and have a $1 charge on the fare that could then help to fund the rest of the loop.
Sunshine station needs to be completed as the link is being constructed as it is needed for the airport, Country trains (As it has platforms for that now), the electrification to Melton and the extra 2 parallel tracks to Melton to separate Country trains from electric trains. With out these works the network in this area will be like the Tulla before Citylink was built. Melton was approved and funded for electrification back in 1969. Just maybe voters in safe seats need to change their voting habits just once or twice to put the wind up the major parties so they do things in those seats and not just marginal ones. The people do have the power.
More unfinished waste 200billion
How many billions will be wasted on Queensland roads and towns ruined by storms thanks to LNP denying climate change? Dutton and co probably best leave Victoria alone.
Dutts and his usual verbal brain farts.
More channel nine sky news inspired bs The srl will transform travel in Melbourne just like the London loop did and does the cost will be spent over decades and future generations will praise the foresight of the current Vic government.dwelling on the size of the debt is pure distractional politics and clouds the importance of this project
Melbourne infrastructure is a sorry excuse for a developed country. Send some people to China and learn how they build massive projects within a few weeks or months. Bring the experts from China and let them do the job. Our contractors in Australia are ripoff artists wasting taxpayer money and ripping off the government.
Dutton is saying to Victoria – DON'T VOTE FOR HIM AND LIBERAL???
Complete Waste of money not needed its a stupid idea..
Waste of money anyway. Not to mention, it doesn't even go into the CBD, which is actually where majority of those who use the rail system actually work.
We do not need to abandon either the airport rail or SRL, however the airport rail is far more urgent and can be done way quicker than the SRL, so we should focus on constructing the airport rail first before we start working on the SRL.
Just borrow the money from China 😂
Who will build it? Donald Trump or putin will come and build it? You mean, boris johnson or pete hegeseth can build it? Who can do it?
We don't need such a stupid SRL in Melbourne. Full stop
SRL was a stupid idea anyway. An inner rail loop makes way more sense