East West Tunnel

[JonHenry]

Just on this, they throw all these figures around with little to no analysis, and last I checked that quantity of money hasnt actually been spent by the Andrews Government.

Part of it was the land buy back that happened years ago which has been spent, and whilst that land does cost money in terms of rates etc, its not money that the government is going to pay to council now, its council rates the council have not seen since. 

Government talk about money is political bulltish first, and actual money spent later.

I wouldnt be surprised if the actual cost of not building the road was nothing, but people created a hole in balance sheets to show this figure.  I know a little bit about budgets, and how money gets handballed around, and I can tell you that this is the most likely scenario here.

So Thry, are you saying the contractors simply walked away with nothing?
Are you saying the State Government didn't buy the houses?