Legislation has passed the Victorian Parliament creating the new entity Infrastructure Victoria.
Billed as an “independent body”, IV is expected to resemble the similarly-named Infrastructure Australia
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ACCC’s Sims: Privatisation must have long-term focus
Competition boss Rod Sims has warned against privatising major assets for immediate financial benefit while effectively creating a ‘tax’ on future generations.
Speaking at Friday’s Infrastructure
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NSW to pay $1.5m to 8-year-old train fall victim
The State of NSW has been ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in damages to a man who fell from a moving train when he was eight years old.
Corey Fuller-Lyons, now 23, sustained severe injuries when
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Hockridge joins push for Shorten to accept ChAFTA
Aurizon boss Lance Hockridge has joined a growing number of politicians and business leaders calling for Opposition leader Bill Shorten to support the proposed China Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA).
“It
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Passengers escape injury in level crossing collision
Two people are lucky to have survived a collision at a level crossing in southern Wollongong on Monday morning, after their car broke down across the junction.
Police said the vehicle’s occupants were
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Fix the housing market one good transport project at a time
AECOM technical director Joe Langley says cleverly funded, strategically robust transport projects will be crucial to solving the housing crisis hitting Sydney and Melbourne.
A recent Moody’s study said
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Tensions escalate as train staff raise stakes
Melbourne train workers will strike for four hours next Friday after Metro Trains allegedly threatened to stand them down if they took part in a number of the less severe measures already planned by the
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Tram workers to strike, train workers to go for Metro’s “hip pocket”
Melbourne tram drivers will go on strike for four hours on Thursday, August 27, after operator Keolis Downer’s request for intervention from the Fair Work Commission was dismissed. Metro Trains drivers,
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ATSB to probe dislodged containers
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating how a pair of shipping containers apparently fell off a freight train between Wangaratta and Springhurst, in Victoria.
It’s believed that on the
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Another blitz shows public transport still a hotbed for crime
NSW Police have returned en masse to the public transport system, and have again issued hundreds of infringements in just four-and-a-half hours’ work.
Officers from the Police Transport Command (PTC)
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