Will Scott Morrison's fast rail plan help him save seats in Victoria?

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ANALYSIS: Will Scott Morrison's fast rail plan help him save seats in Victoria?

with the Liberal Party losing its only Geelong-based seat, South Barwon, on the back of a 7.5 per cent swing.A redraw of seat boundaries means Corangamite is now notionally Labor and there are very few people in the Liberals who believe she can hold on.Labor research during the state poll showed that people in Geelong do not necessarily want to go to Melbourne.

"Why do they think the solution to our problems is always getting to Melbourne faster," was the feedback from one voter. But like Mr Guy's pitch, Mr Morrison's plan is part of a population policy aimed at easing the pressure on rapidly growing Melbourne.Premier Andrews's success, in part, is because he promised to build and by the election, projects were finished or underway.Mr Morrison's plan does have more detail than Mr Guy because it plans to capitalise onand committed $50 million to this in last year's Victorian budget with a further $100 million pledge in the November election campaign.

 

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Nope

Nope he is toast...

Fast derail of Scott Morrison will help to save Victoria... There is no fast rail plan. Vote him out.

Uber will probably do that trip in their flying taxis before then, so I guess, no.

No because we know its an empty promise

Not seats, just trying to save his own ass!?!?!

Only if he can get it built by May!🙄

No

Stop the abc trolling on the TV for labor!!!!!

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No !! Hahaha

The down fall started long time ago God save the Queen no one will save them

It would have to very fast to save his own.

Didn’t work for Mathew Guy who proposed 19 billion for Melb-GEELONG-Warrnambool-WARRIGUL-BENDIGO-BALLARAT. 2 billion down by Scotty and we’re told it’s going to cost 13 bill to the airport at least. Do the sums. Will cost a trillion to upgrade all the services, trains and track.

Just making the service reliable would be a major step forward!

Yep the ABC is worried, which is a good sign.

Great plan, Geelong needs this

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