During the election campaign, Anthony Albanese promised to inject $2.2 billion into the first stage of Dan Andrews’ Suburban Rail Loop – a 90 kilometre orbital rail system that would run underground between Cheltenham and Werribee at a cost of up to $120 billion:
“This project will change how Melburnians live and how they interact with their city,” Mr Albanese said.
“I won’t be a prime minister that uses infrastructure to play political games, I will be a prime minister who invests in the projects that matter”…