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Inland rail: federal government won’t reassess business case despite cost blowout warnings
Local groups and experts express disappointment at Coalition’s ‘dismissive response’ to Senate inquiry’s report
Trouble on the tracks: is Australia’s $14bn inland rail going off the rails?Australia’s inland rail: a long-held dream, but for whom and at what cost?Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityThe federal government will not review its business case for the inland rail project, rejecting any reassessment as “not an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars”, despite cost blowouts identified by a Senate inquiry into the major infrastructure project.
The Senate report, released in August 2021, called on the government to update the 2015 business case undertaken by the former Nationals leader John Anderson, which originally estimated the cost at $4.7bn.
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