Victorian premier blames ‘inflation not corruption’ for Big Build cost blowouts amid fresh allegations

According to The Guardian, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is resisting calls for a royal commission into the state's hundred-billion-dollar Big Build infrastructure program. An investigation by Nine newspapers and sixty Minutes reported that money from the projects may have been paid to organized crime figures, and that the government was warned about cost blowouts allegedly tied to union pressure. Allan has dismissed the concerns, declaring that inflationary pressures on projects is not corruption.

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