School Holidays Road safety tips

With school holidays and family road trips around the corner, RACV is urging Victorian motorists to take a safety-first mindset to keep safe on the roads. RACV Policy Lead – Road Safety, Sam Lynch, said that it was important for every Victorian motorist to do their part to ensure aRead More →

Protecting Australia from terrorist organizations Peter Khalil

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has tabled a report by statement endorsing the relisting of Islamic State, Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) as terrorist organisations under Division 102 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Criminal Code). This report concludes the Committee’s review of the 2023 relisting of threeRead More →

West Gate Tunnel powers ahead

High above Footscray Road, a major milestone on the Andrews Labor Government’s West Gate Tunnel Project will soon be reached – with a giant 1400-tonne crane lifting the final piece of the new elevated freeway into place. The 40-metre-high and 116-metre-long gantry has been hoisting massive 100-tonne pieces of concreteRead More →

Matt Bach - John Pesutto

Opposition leader John Pesutto will be politically poorer next year as his friend and colleague, shadow minister for education Matt Bach has decided to call it quits. Yesterday afternoon, he informed his leader John Pesutto that he would be resigning from Parliament to accept a senior teaching position in theRead More →

Gregory Crinum Coal mine- Tanya Plibersek

Flaunting its self-awarded credentials of being perhaps the most virtuous climate conscious government on the planet, the Albanese Government has approved an extension to the Gregory Crinum coal mine in Central Queensland’s Bowen Basin until 2073. The approval was granted under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC), Australia’sRead More →

Next Generation Trams-Ben Carroll

The Victorian Government is investing $1.85 billion in 100 Next Generation Trams and a new tram maintenance and stabling facility in Melbourne’s west. The Next Generation Trams will be the largest investment in locally made trams in Australia’s history, setting the standard for modern public transport by delivering a moreRead More →

Metro Tunnel - Underground NOW and Finished-sml

The Metro Tunnel will create a new end-to-end rail line from Sunbury in the west to Cranbourne/Pakenham in the south east, with bigger and more modern trains, next-generation signalling technology and five new stations. The Metro Tunnel is the first step towards a metro-style rail network for Melbourne, with theRead More →