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Oh please. Have you actually driven along that road?. The eastern freeway is gridlock at 6am in the effing morning. It's crazy and will only get worse. Infrastructure Australia doesn't account for the impacts it will have on the housing market as it will enable people to live further out east nor the impacts it has on people's stress levels. We know what direction these impacts will be but the magnitudes are impossible to quantify which means they are just left out.Infrastructure Australia.
50c in the dollar is pathetic for urban road infrastructure
Plenty of country upgrades happen with lower cost benefit than that. But are justified on life saving criteria
Yep and all that traffic (90%) is heading to the Cbd so they get off at Hoddle St. There were no cbd exits on East West link. Therefore no impact on the traffic getting off at hoddle. Therefore no impact on the traffic jam. The whole job was pointless without a cbd exit. Do it, but do it right with a cbd exit. As a tunnel they are very hard to modify after the fact so a great decision to cancel it so hopefully once it's eventually built this will be included and the road will actually be useful.Oh please. Have you actually driven along that road?. The eastern freeway is gridlock at 6am in the effing morning. It's crazy and will only get worse. Infrastructure Australia doesn't account for the impacts it will have on the housing market as it will enable people to live further out east nor the impacts it has on people's stress levels. We know what direction these impacts will be but the magnitudes are impossible to quantify which means they are just left out.
On the basis of the opinion poll published in the Herald Sun today, if the 2018 state election was brought forward to next Saturday, the Andrews Labor Government would lose up to 18 seats, which will see the Coalition return to power after just 4 years in opposition. One of the 18 seats lost by Labor will be the Premier's, Daniel Andrews. And it will open the door for Jane Garrett to be the new leader of the Labor Party.
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A first-term Victorian Labor premier so fare behind in polling is surely not the norm? One Nation easily outpolling the Greens is surprising. I imagine the Nationals would be taking a hit.
You know when you step on gum and it stick to your shoes, sometimes you cant get it all from the indentments on the bottom of your boots?
Well that little bit of gum that you can't get out is more useful than this idiot.
Salaries for politicians/premiers/prime minister should be over $1m. At least then you will attract some astute corporate and businessmen/women rather than their career politicians.
This fool has a Bchelor of Arts (which you can wipe your ass with). Has no business experiance and yet somehow he is deemed fit enough to run the state?
This wouldn't have been a poll of Herald Sun readers would it? If it was I'm surprised they're only going to lose 18 seats.On the basis of the opinion poll published in the Herald Sun today, if the 2018 state election was brought forward to next Saturday, the Andrews Labor Government would lose up to 18 seats, which will see the Coalition return to power after just 4 years in opposition. One of the 18 seats lost by Labor will be the Premier's, Daniel Andrews. And it will open the door for Jane Garrett to be the new leader of the Labor Party.
This fool has a Bchelor of Arts (which you can wipe your ass with). Has no business experiance and yet somehow he is deemed fit enough to run the state?
Oh please. Have you actually driven along that road?. The eastern freeway is gridlock at 6am in the effing morning. It's crazy and will only get worse. Infrastructure Australia doesn't account for the impacts it will have on the housing market as it will enable people to live further out east nor the impacts it has on people's stress levels. We know what direction these impacts will be but the magnitudes are impossible to quantify which means they are just left out.
If it had proceeded to completion, the entire EWL project would have cost in excess of $22.8 billion in nominal terms. Limitations in the business case meant there was little assurance that the prioritisation of significant state resources to this project was soundly based.
Key decisions during the project planning, development and procurement phases were driven by an overriding sense of urgency to sign the contract before the November 2014 state election. The significant risks arising from this situation were further compounded by legal challenges to the project and by the absence of comprehensive advice on the potential benefits of deferring the signing of the contract.
Signing the contract in these circumstances was imprudent and exposed the state to significant cost and risk. The risks associated with this decision were increased when the state agreed to amend the contract to provide additional compensation to EWC if the legal challenge to the project planning approval succeeded. The available evidence suggests that the state knew at the time that there was a significant risk that this would happen.
Id agree that the poll is from an outfit with not alot of history in political polling.I'm not particularly a huge fan of Andrews. I'm not a rusted on Labor voter (or rusted on voter of any particular party) I follow his Facebook page and so much of the stuff he posts is far too PC/left for me. I've stated plenty of times I'm impressed with the infrastructure work - the level-crossing removal, MMR Tunnel etc. and his pledge to build the North East Link is a big factor for me being a resident of the grid-locked North East Suburbs. Legalising medicinal marijuana and pledging to retain Safe Schools if the Federal Government gut it are two really positive policies that have largely gone unreported, especially in comparison to the EWL contract, CFA stuff etc. However, the CFA/UFU debacle, the Speaker/Deputy Speaker debacle among other things mean I'm still not sold on him.
I would, however, most certainly take him and his government over Matthew Guy and the Liberal Party. More of a case of the lesser of two evils than Andrews being a great leader and leading a great government. I do, however, think the reporting of his reign so far has been biased and unfair. I understand scandals sell papers but I feel as though if everything that has occurred so far under Andrews had occurred under the Napthine (or Guy) government, we would not hear about it in such a negative light.
Edit - on the recent polls: if they're published by the Herald Sun you'd be taking them with a grain of salt no doubt. I don't know anything about Reachtel (who conducted the poll) but I don't think it's as big an issue as being made out. (AKA "Andrews government in damage control" as being reported) The timing of the poll will no doubt have helped with the Speark/Deputy Speaker entitlement rort and the Weribee South Youth Justice centre upsetting voters.
She's a lot of things, but, not a moron.
Andrews will be premier for 10 years. Guaranteed.
This wouldn't have been a poll of Herald Sun readers would it? If it was I'm surprised they're only going to lose 18 seats.
I do, however, think the reporting of his reign so far has been biased and unfair. I understand scandals sell papers but I feel as though if everything that has occurred so far under Andrews had occurred under the Napthine (or Guy) government, we would not hear about it in such a negative light.
No I didn't, in fact. I hope you're not comparing Daniel Andrews to Geoff Shaw, though.You didn't read The Age much in the Geoff Shaw days then did you?
WTF has that got to do with anything?Say what you like about it's content, but its the newspaper with comfortably the highest circulation figures in Victoria