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In the lead-up to the 2014 state election, then-opposition leader Daniel Andrews promised the Metro Tunnel would be built with one-third of funding provided by the state, one-third from the private sector and one-third from the Commonwealth.
One federal government cabinet minister told
The Age the Andrews government had pushed the Commonwealth for cash for the Metro Tunnel in the lead-up to Tuesday’s budget.
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The rail tunnel, which will connect South Kensington to South Yarra through five underground stations, was initially costed at $11 billion, but has blown out by $2.7 billion.
In October the state government reached a deal with the consortium building the Metro Tunnel project, Cross Yarra Partnership, which agreed to pay an extra $1.37 billion on the project. The remaining $1.37 billion will be picked up by Victorian taxpayers and is expected to be included in the state budget when it’s handed down later this month.
Andrewsâ injury prompts colleagues to question his future as premier
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A photo shared by Daniel Andrews last month when he was moved from ICU.
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But inside Laborâs caucus, the response was mostly shock coupled with a bit of frantic counting.
For the most part, Labor MPs have been kept in the dark about Andrewsâ condition. Most of his colleagues assumed he was on track to return to Spring Street six weeks after he took leave as he had planned. That would see him back at Treasury Place just after Anzac Day.
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Aboriginal Victoria is investigating the destruction of part of an ancient Indigenous ceremonial and cultural site in western Victoria after a landowner allegedly removed a significant portion of carefully arranged stones, claiming the area was becoming a fire hazard.
The Kuyang Stone Arrangement near the town of Lake Bolac, 200 kilometres west of Melbourne, is an Aboriginal cultural landmark composed of two lines of stones depicting the life-cycle of an eel.
Part of the Kuyang Stone Arrangement near Lake Bolac in western Victoria were removed in recent days.
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The 176-metre-long structure curves across the landscape and is believed to have been created more than 1500 years ago.
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