Suburban Rail Loop faces major cost blowout |
The entire project was initially going to cost $50 billion to build the loop running from Cheltenham to Werribee. So far, the state has allocated $11 billion for stage one. Advertisement. |
Independent analysis puts the cost of building and running Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop at $200 billion |
Key points: · Victoria's Parliamentary Budget Office [PBO] assessed the project at the request of Opposition Leader Matthew Guy · The PBO put construction costs for the first two stages at $125 billion with another $75 billion in operating costs... |
Morrison's multiple portfolios: why the law has nothing to do with it |
The go-to defence of pretty much everyone who is entangled in the scandal of Scott Morrison's self-appointment to five ministerial portfolios other than his own is that no laws were broken. But this alleged legality - which remains unclear - is barely... |
Scientists are trying to bring back the Tasmanian tiger nearly a century after extinction |
Teaming up with Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences to bring back the Australian thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), a predator exterminated in the early 20th century, is the University of Melbourne's Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research (TIGRR)... |