Libs push to revoke tunnel plans
out in Waurn Ponds,” Ms Kerr said. “We find in the CBD there are a lot of international students that want a secure building close to campus.”
To rent a fully furnished room in the new student accommodation, with all utilities included, costs $295 per week.
The Geelong Advertiser previously reported Deakin, a publicly funded university, bought the vacant lot at 19-23 Brougham St for more than $3.6 million in 2012.
It was being used as a carpark before being transformed into student accommodation. ATTEMPTS in Parliament to stop the building of the $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel toll road are set to drag on.
The Opposition’s David Davis attempted yesterday to revoke planning approval for the controversial project in the Upper House with the support of the Greens.
Debate, however, dragged on and has been shunted to resume in two weeks.
“This project is so poor on a number of levels ... it delivers a poor outcome, it’s a poor process, bad deals have been done and it’s an environmental disaster,” Greens leader Samantha Ratnam said.
“We know that it won’t solve truck and congestion problems in the west, it will just move the problem around.”
But the Government’s Daniel Mulino said the road would be “linking people in some of our fastest growing communities to the CBD” and pointed to industry support.
“The Property Council has warned that what Mr Davis is doing will threaten investment and development in this state — the Property Council, hardly a Trotskyite institution,” Mr Mulino said.
Premier Daniel Andrews said the attempt to block the project is putting jobs at risk on a project already under way.
“If the Liberal and National parties were successful in every device they seem intent to employ to stop this project, then these jobs will be more than at risk, they’ll be gone,” he said.
The Government would try to find a way to push ahead with the project, he said.
Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said the project ripped off Victorians.
“Not only have they not negotiated, it appears they’ve just signed up to anything put in front of them,” he said.
Preliminary works have already started on the West Gate Tunnel. Transurban will pay for two-thirds of the project and the Government wants to compensate it with a 10-year toll extension on the CityLink until 2045.