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$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

Just caught the start of channel 9 news. The RWNJ Dave Hughes giving what amounted to a party political broadcast for the Libs.

So, who are they having on for equal time?

#VicPol #auspol

I don't think that wage rise would be healthy.

I would rather see enough apartments* built within 300m of Toorak and Hawksburn stations that some were available at prices a barista could afford.

And at all the other stations around Melbourne.

The component not mentioned in @moz 's list of reasons (at least not directly) is that 50% of those should be government owned

#AusPol #VicPol

*Obviously ones aimed at being ~1/3 the price of a small home in the area, maybe a bit less....
@timrichards

@msdropbear
Oh fuck... if I knew that earlier I would be there to heckle the dipshit (DH). He seriously lost the plot during Covid lock downs. Instead, I will be down at the Otways for the day...

#auspol
#vicpol

Hell yes - well done to all of the high school kids out there protesting in Melbourne today.

#protest #Naarm #Melbourne #VicPol #AusPol

More cars forced off major Victorian highway with damaged tyres due to potholes.

Up to 7 cars have been forced off the road with damaged tyres after hitting potholes on the #CalderFreeway near #Gisborne.

The cars were lined up on the side of the freeway waiting for roadside assistance.

#VicPol