Aurizon chief executive and managing director Lance Hockridge has praised Infrastructure Australia’s 15-year infrastructure plan, saying its recommended reforms could be “game changers”
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Safety the focus of three-day Hunter shutdown
Australian Rail Track Corporation executive general manager Jonathan Vandervoort has urged workers, motorists and community members to maintain a safety focus during a three-day shutdown of the Hunter
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Albanese: Infrastructure report highlights Coalition’s failings
Shadow minister for transport and infrastructure Anthony Albanese has urged the Turnbull Government to return to “an evidence-based approach” to the funding of major infrastructure projects,
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Turnbull, Joyce applaud infrastructure report
Malcolm Turnbull has praised recommendations made by Infrastructure Australia in its first 15-year planning document, released February 17.
Turnbull welcomed the paper, dubbed the Australian Infrastructure
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Port Botany doesn’t need another expensive rail project, just better utilisation
COMMENT: Improving the efficiency of existing rail infrastructure into Port Botany will deliver the capacity gains it will need, write Daniel Harbour, Daniel Guimarans, and Pascal Van Hentenryck.
Every
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IA calls for reforms to drive more people, freight to rail
Infrastructure Australia has highlighted the preservation of future rail corridors, the development of metro-style passenger networks in key cities, and reform in the planning and funding of transport
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Asciano makes $88m switch from Brookfield to Qube
Australian port and rail giant Asciano will pay an $88 million break fee to back out of a takeover bid from Canadian infrastructure fund Brookfield, so it can fully support a rival bid from Qube Holdings.
Asciano
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Business concerns over lack of Melbourne deal
Business and industry groups are expressing concerning about the lack of progress towards a deal to privatise Australia’s largest container terminal.
Last week it was revealed the Victorian Labor government
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Serial arsonist charged over Metro derailment, historic railyard fires
Victorian Police say a man arrested over the derailment of a Metro train in November has now been charged with 25 alleged arson and sabotage related offences, including a pair of fires at the Newport steam
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Light rail advocate Robert in hot water
The minister who backed Malcolm Turnbull over Tony Abbott to secure funding for stage two of the Gold Coast Light Rail project is now in hot water over alleged ministerial misconduct.
Opposition leader
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