news from the weekend

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Phin

Just reporting a couple of bits of interesting news from the weekend. 
Firstly, The front page of Saturday’s Age brought some potentially good news regarding the Eddington inquiry - it looks like it may recommend a big rail project. It appears that the road tunnel is still on the cards (disappointing but unsurprising), but a potential [...]

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A farewell to farms

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Phin

The state government announced yesterday that it is going to fast track the release of massive amounts of greenfields land along Melbourne’s growth corridors, in response to new information which suggests that the city population will reach 6.2 million in just 12 years.
Whilst there’s no doubt that the supply of land needs to be [...]

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