{"id":181570,"date":"2025-03-03T10:53:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T00:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181570"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T00:55:19","slug":"labor-government-commits-7-billion-to-help-deliver-melbourne-airport-rail-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181570","title":{"rendered":"Labor government commits $7 billion to help deliver Melbourne Airport Rail link"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced his government will pump $7 billion into finally delivering the Melbourne Airport Rail link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Albanese made the announcement during his address at the 2025 Herald Sun\u2019s Future Victoria event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, as Prime Minister, I give this very straightforward concrete commitment to Victorians \u2013 our government will partner with the Victorian government to fund and build the rail link to Melbourne Airport,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019ll do it in a way that delivers maximum benefit for people in Melbourne\u2019s west and north and also delivers benefit for people from Bendigo, Ballarat, and Geelong, whether they\u2019re going to the airport or not to access the entire network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo make this happen, our Labor government is committing $7 billion to build Melbourne Airport Rail, the next important step in Suburban Rail Loop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced his government will pump $7 billion into finally delivering the Melbourne Airport Rail link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":180344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[513,47],"tags":[993,10958,8],"class_list":["post-181570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melbourne-airport","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-airport-rail-link","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181571,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181570\/revisions\/181571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}