The Age: Canberra to keep East West Link business case secret July 8, 2014.Clay Lucas, City Editor,

The Abbott government has pushed back an attempt by federal Labor to obtain the secret business case for Victoria’s East West Link tollway.

The East West Link is an 18-kilometre cross-city freeway extending across Melbourne from the Eastern Freeway to the Western Ring Road.

Labor senator Kim Carr had demanded the Senate hand over any documents provided to the federal government as part of Canberra’s decision to give Victoria $3 billion for the road.

But on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss tabled correspondence from independent funding advisor Infrastructure Australia in the Senate. Continue Reading…