From Snowy Hydro to Inland Rail, projects get announced early, then costs soar tens of billions higher. Yet there are proven ways to stop that happening.
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Inland Rail was meant to take 200,000 trucks a year off our roads – but it’s now been cut in half. Why is rail freight shortchanged compared to roads and city rail?
Some 34 countries have high-speed rail or are about to get it. Yet since it was for proposed for Australia in 1984, no local plan for high-speed rail has got further than the drawing board.
Despite a huge fall in interest rates, the federal government has been using the same rate to value prospective infrastructure projects since 1989.
Politics Podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree
Darren Chester says there is too much hyper-partisanship in Australian politics.
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Transport Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Director of Deakin Megaprojects Research Group and Senior Lecturer of Construction and Project Management, Deakin University