Andrews demands $11.5b rail pork from Albo

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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”…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.