What’ll we build now?

Treasurer Michael O’Brien said Labor’s position to block the east west link would cost Victoria 6200 jobs.

“Ripping up a contract will cost the State billions of dollars in damages, compensation and refunds, send the State’s budget from surplus into deficit, and push up the cost of future infrastructure projects,” Mr O’Brien said in a media release.”

Construction workers must be wondering where their next job will come from.

Or perhaps not.

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Source: The Age, Shane Green,  September 15, 2014 Melbourne becomes the city of soaring skyscrapers – and the envy of Sydney developers