Finish Tunnel?
Finish Murray basing SG-ing?
Nope make Melbourne in MINECRAFT
https://youtu.be/YKPjBt4JqGw
Rail Projects Victoria How can we look like we are doing something?Checks the date? Must be something wrong, it's not April 1st.
Finish Tunnel?
Finish Murray basing SG-ing?
Nope make Melbourne in MINECRAFT
https://youtu.be/YKPjBt4JqGw
Nope Premier is releasing a Minecraft mapRail Projects Victoria How can we look like we are doing something?Checks the date? Must be something wrong, it's not April 1st.
Finish Tunnel?
Finish Murray basing SG-ing?
Nope make Melbourne in MINECRAFT
https://youtu.be/YKPjBt4JqGw
Let's be realistic. The feds are going to do nothing with the East-West link. They can easily blame Daniel Andrews and say that it's impossible to make progress. That $4 Billion is money they don't have. If only we could close some tax loopholes to actually get that money...Looks like the Federal and Victorian State Governments will be at logger heads with each other for the next 3 years.
True, but Dan will probably still be laughing all the way to the bank, because the feds have to face the music again before he does.Let's be realistic. The feds are going to do nothing with the East-West link. They can easily blame Daniel Andrews and say that it's impossible to make progress. That $4 Billion is money they don't have. If only we could close some tax loopholes to actually get that money...Looks like the Federal and Victorian State Governments will be at logger heads with each other for the next 3 years.
Honestly couldn’t have said it better PIMM. Let’s hope it some outlandish Fixed Four Year Term of Federal Parliament Act isn’t passed!!!The Constitution.
Actually this raises a good question — is the length of term of Parliament contained in the Electoral Act, or the Constitution?
As soon as may be after the Senate first meets, and after each first meeting of the Senate following a dissolution thereof, the Senate shall divide the senators chosen for each State into two classes, as nearly equal in number as practicable; and the places of the senators of the first class shall become vacant at the expiration of three years, and the places of those of the second class at the expiration of six years, from the beginning of their term of service; and afterwards the places of senators shall become vacant at the expiration of six years from the beginning of their term of service.
The election to fill vacant places shall be made within one year before the places are to become vacant.
For the purposes of this section the term of service of a senator shall be taken to begin on the first day of July following the day of his election, except in the cases of the first election and of the election next after any dissolution of the Senate, when it shall be taken to begin on the first day of July preceding the day of his election.
Every House of Representatives shall continue for three years from the first meeting of the House, and no longer, but may be sooner dissolved by the Governor‑General.
Honestly couldn’t have said it better PIMM. Let’s hope it some outlandish Fixed Four Year Term of Federal Parliament Act isn’t passed!!!Hello All,
Actually this raises a good question — is the length of term of Parliament contained in the Electoral Act, or the Constitution?
Hello All,Under normal circumstances, all senators representing the states have 6 year terms (territory senators have terms which expire on the dissolution of the House of Representatives) with the two 'classes' of senators being staggered by 3 years - e.g. half serve 2016-2022, half serve 2019-2025
terms of the Commonwealth Parliament are set out in the Constitution, hence 3 years for the House of Representatives and 6 years for the half the Senators, and 3 years for the other half of Senators. Senate terms are based on distributed votes individually allocated, therefore in any State, the 6 Senators with the highest number of allocated votes gets a 6 years term, and the remaining 6 Senators get a 3 years term.
@RadiomanA bit of trivia
I actually agree — I think fixed-term Parliaments are worthy. As I understand it, all mainland states and territories now have fixed four-year term Parliaments, because voters were frustrated having to go to the polls so frequently.
Indeed, the commonwealth is a global outlier for our bicameral system of government. Most other bicameral systems have four-five year terms, and many of them are fixed.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Completed_Inquiries/em/elect04/chapter7#len
Additionally, many places like Tas, NSW, WA, have 8 year tenure for the members of the legislative council (the states equivalent of the Senate)... so I don’t necessarily see that as being a particular problem.
Considering that voting is compulsory (and will stay that way for the foreseeable future), I think people would be relieved to not have to go to the polls with the unpredictability they currently have to!!
Auditor-general reveals 30% cost blowout to early construction works:It doesn't. There's a lot to go through in the full report:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/metro-tunnel-faces-huge-cost-blowout-watchdog-reveals-20190606-p51v0g.html
Umm, maybe it has something to do with the fact that labourers are on $150k...
The state’s desire to bring forward the overall project delivery date from 2026 to 2025—particularly by taking on the risk of constructing deep access shafts in the CBD—has come at an unanticipated extra cost, due to:
initial underestimation by RPV of the likely costs and technical challenges of deep access shafts
difficult and unforeseen geological conditions
requirements by the PPP consortium for the redesign of the strutting system used in the State Library station access shafts after excavation works had already commenced
...
RPV’s decision to bring in a member of the PPP consortium as its ‘delegate’ to help resolve delay and design issues in the State Library station precinct access shafts, as well as other early works, resulted in an unanticipated cost of $68.3 million. This extra cost was due to the EWSA that RPV negotiated with a member of the PPP consortium.
Under this arrangement, the member of the PPP consortium raised an additional $172.8 million of variations, including the redesign of some elements of the deep access shafts. RPV paid for these variations, triggered by the PPP consortium while acting as the state’s delegate, from wider project contingency funds. RPV advises that it believes the state would have incurred these costs regardless of the delegate arrangement. It also asserts that the arrangement with a member of the PPP consortium has effectively mitigated the state’s exposure to any more ongoing delay risks and potential future compensation claims by the PPP
consortium due to late handover of the deep access shafts by the state. The wider public sector can learn from the interface risks that have realised in this project.
We are uncertain about the accuracy of some elements of the models PTV used to forecast passenger demand for the project. The 2016 business case was based on a specific demand forecast output from the Victorian Integrated Transport Model (VITM) and did not make it clear to decision‐makers or the public that this figure could vary significantly because predictive models cannot be exact.
It was difficult for us to understand the rationale for many key assumptions used in the models as PTV and DoT did not document these decisions well.
DELWP’s identification and management of key environmental risks for this large and complex project, which affects many sensitive locations, has been diligent and effective.
In addition to this good work to date, all project parties will need to maintain high levels of focus to comply with the various environmental management controls now that construction is entering a more intense and complex phase.
The agencies we audited showed good practice in their early identification of project risks and made a focused effort to mitigate them. Examples of this include the early relocation of utilities and other services, as well as prompt land acquisitions and site clearances soon after the confirmation of the project’s boundaries.
Auditor-general reveals 30% cost blowout to early construction works:Umm, maybe you should just read the report of what the Auditor General said, instead of making stuff up.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/metro-tunnel-faces-huge-cost-blowout-watchdog-reveals-20190606-p51v0g.html
Umm, maybe it has something to do with the fact that labourers are on $150k...
This 31.2 percent increase is due to an expansion of the project's scope to include managing road closures and keeping traffic flowing during construction.Fun stuff like re-building the domain tram lines, work most sites throughout the night, blokes in high vis holding lolly-pops.
I'm completely unsurprised by "difficult and unforeseen geological conditions". That was going to be a big issue with the East-West toll road, and I suspect the West Gate link will also throw up some interesting geological challenges.Very much agree with you on this one. It was never going to come in on budget. The government deliberately broke up the project into multiple work packages to speed up the delivery of the project to try and make up for the fours years it sat on the shelf. It was always going to run over budget, lets see if it is delivered a year earlier as promised.
The mid-2020s are going to be a chaotic time. One just hopes the State's finances are in order then.
Incidentally, what's with Tim Pallas buying a Lexus instead of something more humble to get chauffeured around town in?
Auditor-general reveals 30% cost blowout to early construction works:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/metro-tunnel-faces-huge-cost-blowout-watchdog-reveals-20190606-p51v0g.html
Umm, maybe it has something to do with the fact that labourers are on $150k...
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