A review of all public road and rail projects worth $20 million or more and completed since 2001 reveals a 21% cost overrun. Worryingly, costs of bigger projects blew out more often and by more.
- Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
Bullet trains are back on the agenda. But a new analysis shows that rather than helping cut emissions, such a project would drive them up for at least 24 years.
The major parties are promising tens of billions of dollars in transport spending, but only a handful of projects are on Infrastructure Australia’s national priority list with approved business cases.
One in four patients who stays overnight in hospital endures a complication.
New medical staff start in January and may not be as skilled or adept as their predecessors, meaning more things go wrong.
