Infrastructure boom
CFMEU ‘monopoly’ cause of Big Build corruption, says construction boss
The outgoing boss of one of Victoria’s key Big Build contractors says the CFMEU’s dominance of government worksites must be broken if the state wants to address the root cause of rampant corruption and criminality.
- Patrick Hatch
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Inland Rail’s final stages shelved after shock $45 billion price tag revealed
The shock forecast also warns it would take until at least 2036 to complete if the Albanese government had decided to push ahead with the final stages.
- Matt O'Sullivan and Brittany Busch
- Exclusive
- Electricity
Leaked videos reveal flooding in troubled Snowy 2.0 tunnel project
The videos starkly illustrate the enormous challenges the multibillion-dollar project is encountering beneath a national park, and away from the public’s eye.
- Matt O'Sullivan and Mike Foley
How Metro West is coming together beneath our city
Building the Metro West tunnel is a technological feat, but bit by bit, it's coming together under the city.
- Exclusive
- Schools
‘Concerns have been raised’: $40m contract to upgrade schools axed, referred to the ICAC
More than 30 new and upgraded school projects and 100 new public preschools are at risk after the NSW government terminated the contract.
- Chris O'Keefe
- Updated
- Roads
Albanese axes Sydney’s newest spaghetti junction roadway
The NSW government has been caught off guard by the axing of funding for the link connecting the M7 and M12.
- Alexandra Smith, Michael Koziol and Shane Wright
- Editorial
- Opinion
Just get on with building the Metro West project
Taking stock of the project was reasonable but outsourcing the future of Australia’s largest public transport project was weak leadership.
- The Herald's View
Macquarie profits prosper in low-rate world
Macquarie Group is cashing in on a boom in infrastructure asset values and buoyant financial market conditions.
- Clancy Yeates
WA’s biggest rail project to be nearly two years overdue after more delays
The $1.86 billion project is now expected to become operational in the first half of 2022, 18 months after its original completion date of December 2020 and 6 months after the revised date of late 2021.
- Hamish Hastie
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
Biden is anything but sleepy as he puts together radical $US3 trillion spending plan
“Sleepy Joe” may turn out to be one of the most energetic, reformist and progressive US presidents in modern history as he plans a spending spree.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz