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The section of the Great Western Highway that was at risk of collapse due to the fill between its two sandstone walls built by convicts.

Blue Mountains highway avoids worst-case scenario for fix

However, the roads minister says it is clear it will take longer than three months to fix the damaged section of the road, which was built by convicts.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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The first cabinet meeting of the Andrews government in 2014. (Colour digitally altered)

From ‘no extra cost’ to record debt: The 12-year transformation of Victorian Labor

Eight hundred pages of confidential state cabinet documents reveal how a disciplined new Labor government in 2014 evolved into a “crash through” administration – until it struck the unexpected.

  • Royce Millar
Housing development is putting pressure on the Western Freeway.

A year after $1 billion pledge, paperwork still not filed for freeway upgrade

The Allan government is being asked to explain its slow progress upgrading the Western Freeway after waiting more than a year to provide Canberra with a business case to unlock $1 billion in federal funds. 

  • Patrick Hatch and Kieran Rooney
Housing built on the Barrett family’s former farm in Manor Lakes.

Farmer’s son slams state’s legal tactics after $28m compensation win

The son of a western suburbs farmer who won $28m in compensation for the acquisition of his land for a future road has lashed the state government’s legal tactics.

  • Adam Carey
The section of the Great Western Highway which is threatening to collapse.

‘Complicated rebuild’ points to long closure of key Blue Mountains highway

A $50 million emergency injection into detour routes over the Blue Mountains also suggests the closure of the critical highway will be long-lasting.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
An upgrade to the western section of Mona Vale Road in northern Sydney could now start by the middle of next year.

Fixes finally in sight for road choke points on Sydney’s northern beaches

The upgrades to key arterial routes come as a wide-ranging review sparks calls for plans for the multibillion-dollar Beaches Link motorway tunnel to be revived.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan

CFMEU disruption did not blow North East Link’s budget, says premier

The consortium building the 10-kilometre project had complained to the government in March 2023 that the union’s mischief had pushed back tunnelling by as much as two months.

  • Rachel Eddie and Nick McKenzie
Premier Jacinta Allan refused to say how many times she had been warned about criminal behaviour on government building sites.

North East Link builders told government CFMEU was holding up construction

The Spark consortium raised complaints in 2023 about CFMEU obstruction on the $26 billion project, a revelation that puts further pressure on premier Jacinta Allan.

  • Rachel Eddie, Sumeyya Ilanbey, Kieran Rooney and Nick McKenzie
Jonty Bush is the Labor MP for the Brisbane seat of Cooper and the deputy chair of the State Development, Infrastructure and Works Committee, which recently handed down its report following the e-mobility inquiry.

No evidence legal e-bikes are a safety risk, inquiry’s deputy chair says

The deputy chair of Queensland’s e-mobility inquiry says pedal-assisted e-bikes should not be lumped in the same category as high-powered electric motorbikes. But proposed new laws will apply to both.

  • Felicity Caldwell
The first sinkhole opened above one of the tunnels at Rockdale for the M6 motorway in early March 2024.

This $3.1b Sydney road has been delayed by years. Now there’s an ultimatum

Contractors building the M6 motorway have been in a stand-off with the NSW government over who bears the cost of fixing sinkholes that opened up two years ago.

  • Matt O'Sullivan