MAKING AND UNMAKING OF EAST-WEST LINK
- Bib ID:
- 8663894
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Murphy, James C, author
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- National edeposit
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- Description:
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- [S.l.] MELBOURNE UNIV PRESS 2022
- Carlton, Victoria Melbourne University Publishing 2022
- 1 online resource.
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- text file
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- 1.7MB
- ISBN:
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- 0522878377
- 9780522878370
- Summary:
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The definitive account of a hotly debated political project in Melbourne. Melbourne's aborted East-West Link - the massive, multi-billion-dollar inner-city toll road project that promised to knit Melbourne closer together-was divisive from the start. Intense picketing and protests, multiple court challenges, breathless media coverage and bitter politicking consumed the Victorian parliament for years. The link brought the downfall of the single-term Baillieu-Napthine Liberal government; its cancellation cost the state half a billion dollars, and it lives on in infamy - a byword for brinkmanship, waste and politicisation of infrastructure. But where did this notorious megaproject come from, and what explains its fate? Was it a project hand-picked by state premiers who miscalculated its electoral value? Was it foisted on the government by cunning roads bureaucrats, unprepared for the public backlash? Or was it simply that opponents of the project succeeded by turning it into an election issue? James C Murphy explores the saga from competing vantage points, detailing the layers of politics that saturate infrastructure policymaking in Australia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- City planning -- Victoria -- Melbourne
- Highway engineering -- Australia
- Highway engineering -- Victoria -- Melbourne
- Roads -- Victoria -- Melbourne
- Toll roads -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History
- Tunnels -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Design
- Politics & government
- City planning
- Highway engineering
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian
- Politics and government
- Roads
- Tunnels -- Design and construction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- Victoria -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Victoria -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- Australia
- Victoria -- Melbourne
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- Other authors/contributors:
- MURPHY, JAMES C
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