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IDAHOBIT Day INTERNATIONAL Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia is this week, with multiple local events scheduled to commemorate it. A flag raising will take place at the Frankston Civic Centre Forecourt on IDAHOBIT Day, 17 May. The morning tea event will begin at 9am. Later during the day at the Frankston Library forecourt, Frankston Council’s job advocates will provide free one on one consultations with visitors to discuss barriers to employment and study faced by LGBTQIA+ people. Other activities will also be held at the library forecourt throughout the day. Inside the library, author Dr Yves Rees will speak about their book All About Yves from 5pm to 6pm. Dr Rees’ book is a memoir about the trans experience. For a full schedule of events visit frankston.vic.gov.au/idahobit
THE rainbow flag flies over Frankston. Picture: Supplied
Opposition on board for rail loop project Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au THE federal opposition will spend $2.2 billion on the Suburban Rail Loop project if it wins this weekend’s federal election. Labor leader Anthony Albanese made the announcement alongside Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews last
week. The first stop on the Suburban Rail Loop is planned to be on the Frankston line in Cheltenham. The completed rail loop will link all major rail lines from Frankston to Werribee, and provide a long-awaited railway connection to Melbourne Airport. Construction on the SRL East section of the project, running from the Frankston line to Box Hill, has begun.
The opposition’s announced funding will go towards construction costs. SRL East is projected to cost more than $30 billion according to a business case released last year, with trains running by 2035. Labor leader Anthony Albanese said that project would “change how Melburnians live and how they interact with their city.” “I won’t be a Prime Minister that
uses infrastructure to play political games, I will be a Prime Minister who invests in the projects that matter,” he said. Premier Daniel Andrews welcomed the announcement, saying that the Suburban Rail Loop will “change the way we move around the state, slashing travel times and taking more cars off our roads for faster, safer journeys.” “We welcome federal Labor’s con-
tribution to the Suburban Rail Loop, which will support thousands of Victorian jobs in the coming years. It’s a project Victorians voted for – and we’re getting on with it,” he said. The state government hopes that the trip from Cheltenham to Box Hill will take 22 minutes once the project is finished. It is planning that the SRL East section of the railway line will be used by 70,000 passengers a day.