Friday, 14 November 2025

 Ryan BATCHELOR (Southern Metropolitan) (12:42): My question is to the Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop. How will the SRL deliver better connections and more opportunities to the constituents in the Southern Metropolitan Region? Recently I joined the minister to do a visit to the Suburban Rail Loop site at Burwood, to announce the start of major construction at the Burwood station site and announce the packages for that and other stations. Preparations are well advanced for tunnelling, kicking off next year. We had a tour. We saw the very significant hole – I suppose that is the only way to describe it – which will be the launch site for the tunnel-boring machines and our future SRL station connecting to Deakin and beyond. The SRL is a huge and very exciting project across the Southern Metropolitan region.