Pouring an extra $3.25 billion worth of federal funds into Melbourne’s North East Link is a good use of taxpayer money, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has insisted, despite the project’s cost doubling just a few months ago.
While the licences have timed QR codes that can be used to verify authenticity, the technology is incompatible with the scanners used at many RSLs and at some nightclubs to keep problem gamblers or barred patrons away.
Alex Chan is standing in front of what looks like a five-storey, purple cheese grater. The enormous disc is known as a cutter head, and the 4000-tonne engine sitting behind it will soon push it underground.
