Labor digging us into huge hole with Cross River Rail

Else and Merle are the tunnel boring machines named after feminist trailblazers Else Shepherd, an engineering academic, and Merle Thornton – actor Sigrid Thornton’s mother -who famously chained herself to a men’s-only bar at the Regatta Hotel in 1965.

After her shambolic government was saved by the COVID pandemic, the Premier will attempt to use the cross-river rail project to get it back on track. (That’s the last time I’ll use that pun; promise.)Else and Merle…



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