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Victorian Premier Ben Carroll to announce $2b in cuts to Suburban Rail Loop
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-25/suburban-rail-loop-project-ben-carroll-savings-2-billion/107073280

Ben Carroll sure has a curious strategy in the run-up to this year's State Election: it appears he wants to make the Coalition redundant by himself acting as the Opposition party.

Today's brainfart from Ben Carroll is to hamstring the Suburban Rail Loop by slashing the scope and budget for essential infrastructure. His plan will drastically reduce the effectiveness of the SRL, and lock-in extra travel time for passengers.

This comes only days after Ben Carroll returned to his anti-worker Shoppie roots by saying he wants to axe plans to protect workers' rights to Work From Home. Remote work is contrary to Conservative dogma and return-to-office edicts of big business and rent-seeking property developers, so Ben Carroll was quick to oblige.

Good job, Benny, on your RWNJ election promises!

#AusPol #VicPol #BenCarroll #PublicTransport #SRL #SuburbanRailLoop #ReturnToOffice #WorkFromHome

@david_reid "unnecessary extras"

#vicpol #SuburbanRailLoop #SRL

Anthony Albanese has crowded the Coalition out of the political middle, while Pauline Hanson applies pressure from the right.

But if Labor wants to become the natural party of government, caution cannot become an excuse for inaction, Jack Waterford writes. #Auspol #Albanese #PaulineHanson #ALP #VICpol
https://pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08/labor-the-middle-ground-is-not-enough/

This video clearly articulates our problem.
We can't leave vital stuff people need to live like electricity, water, transit & housing to "market forces."
"Price signals drive investment" can only shift an industry so far, we still need gov support too.
@[email protected] #AUSpol #VICpol

$90 million per year gift to Transurban if self-interested car drivers think they can sell their vote for $3000 under Coalition plan to buy votes for $0
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/road-tolls-to-be-capped-at-50-weekly-under-coalition-commuter-plan-20260815-p60okz.html

Fixed the headline for you.

Let's have a realistic look at this shonky election-promise:
- That $3000 isn't a discount offered by tollway companies. The money will come from the government, using taxes collected from citizens. We'll be paying for it.
- It's a handout to Transurban as a thankyou for political donations to the Liberal Party.
- If they start this scam, they won't stop after two years. It will continue forever.
- Tollway companies will jack-up their prices by the same amount as the "saving" so customers won't see any difference.

This brainfart was brought to you by the same neocon tools that gave a bunch of public highways (that had been built with money paid for by tax-payers) to rent-extracting tollway companies.

#AusPol #VicPol #Transurban #TollRoads