The Metro Tunnel didn’t open early. It’s right on time – but at what cost?
Victorians may never know just how much it cost the state for Labor MPs to maintain the illusion that the huge project is ahead of schedule.

Victorians may never know just how much it cost the state for Labor MPs to maintain the illusion that the huge project is ahead of schedule.
Patients spent longer in NSW emergency departments than at any point since 2010. See how your hospital stacks up.
The real reason Australia won’t do the right thing and repatriate its ISIS brides is the prime minister’s increasing habit of jumping at shadows.
While a growing number of businesses closing over Christmas, it doesn’t suit all employees. For those in casual employment, the lack of pay could not happen at a worse time.
Unlawful immigrants would be deported and visas torn up if people breached Australian values under a plan by Opposition Leader Sussan Ley.
Australian taxpayers have spent more than $4 million on travel for politicians’ families and spouses since the election of the Albanese government.
The energy market operator warns that slow project development could keep coal in the grid longer and add billions of dollars to energy costs.
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Despite two councillors backing the proposal, and Perth’s lord mayor describing Gina Rinehart as an “amazing Australian”, the council refused the application during Tuesday night’s meeting.
Families in regional Western Australia will soon have to pay hundreds of dollars more to fly to Perth after changes to flight caps.
Police have talked a teenager down from the roof of an Ellenbrook home after a standoff lasting hours.
Six teens have been charged after they allegedly attacked a 15-year-old boy at a Perth high school.
Changes to Brisbane’s planning rules will make it easier for pubs to build new hotel rooms to boost the city’s short-stay accommodation.
The Australian Federal Police has finally released embarrassing documents showing it still cannot identify the source of a damaging tip-off.
Emergency services were told “there’s a man bashing the hell out of his woman”. Lindy Lucena later died 600 metres from a police station.
Brisbane City Council has moved to ban short-stay rentals from low-density residential areas.
CCTV shows masked offenders invade a home in Wellington Point.
The NRL has made good on its promise to look into the club’s boardroom issues following the sacking of four independent directors by its majority owner.
Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his own shins.
Parents are being hoodwinked by misleading marketing of ultra-processed snacks for babies and toddlers that claims the foods are healthy and natural.
Before 2020, female enrolments in advanced mathematics at the University of Sydney were in decline. But an intervention transformed everything.
Through works that take you from dark to light, artist Olafur Eliasson underscores why sometimes it’s important to speak with people you might disagree with.
Ex-nurse Rajwinder Singh will serve a minimum 25 years in jail for the murder of Toyah Cordingley.