Tag: infrastructure spending
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Suburban Rail Loop Execs Spend Over $330k Attending Tunnelling Conferences and Lobbying Efforts
Overview Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) project has long promised a transformative east–west link. New reporting indicates SRL executives have spent more than $330,000 traveling to tunnelling conferences, meeting foreign governments, and wooing potential partners for the project’s first stage, an estimated $34.5 billion undertaking. The travel, meetings, and outreach activities are described by SRL…
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Suburban Rail Loop: SRL Executives Spend $330k on Tunnelling Conferences
Overview: Big Spending on Global Tunnelling Conferences Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) executives have spent more than $330,000 traveling to tunnel-boring and infrastructure conferences around the world. The objective, according to internal reports, was to advance Australia’s largest public transport project by meeting foreign governments, wooing potential builders, and gathering technical knowledge about tunnel construction and…
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Shadow Flood Control Spending in 2025: UP-NCPAG Exposes Hidden GAA Allocations
Unpacking the 2025 Flood Control Budget A recent study by the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG) has highlighted a substantial allocation in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) for flood control projects that fall outside the official Flood Management Program (FMP). Dubbed the “shadow” flood control budget, this funding…