Victoria's Parliamentary Budget Office says the cost of the state's Suburban Rail Loop would outweigh its benefit to the community.
abc.net.au/news/victoria-suburban-rail-loop-value-questioned/101380294New analysis of Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop suggests the project's cost could outweigh its benefit as the state's opposition launches another attack on the government over the scheme.
The Victorian opposition said it would put the project on hold and divert funding towards rebuilding the state's health system. "We've said that the project should be shelved. We've said that the money should be redirected into our crumbling healthcare system, a healthcare system that has seen the triple-0 service repeatedly fail Victorians and has seen inadequate capacity in our hospitals."
"If you stop a project that is underway and critically important, well, that's not the way we operate."Premier Daniel Andrews announced more than 10,000 nursing and midwifery students would have their course costs covered by the government.
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