Heidelberg Materials Australia has proposed a 75-year granite quarry on a 280-hectare greenfield site at Bunyip North, about 70 kilometres south-east of Melbourne.
For more than a decade, Victoria has promised a network of inland rail terminals that would take shipping containers off trucks and put them on trains before they ever reach central Melbourne.
Australian public needs to understand the urgency of this issue and demand action from their elected officials. This requires a robust public awareness campaign, one that effectively communicates the economic and environmental benefits of a modernised freight system.
Tania Vassie was playing on the school oval when she looked up into the clear autumn sky to see a “strange, rounded, two-storey disc floating up above”.
