Freight terminal spending ‘short-changes’ Victoria, state government says

Transport infrastructure minister Jacinta Allan says western Melbourne site of proposed freight terminal should be ‘first cab off the rank’. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

Victoria’s transport infrastructure minister, Jacinta Allan, has accused the Morrison government of short-changing the state on infrastructure ahead of a multi-billion package for freight terminals being detailed in Tuesday’s federal budget.

Allan also urged the federal government to justify why it was prioritising a freight terminal in Melbourne’s north – at odds with the Andrews government’s location preference – as part of a $3.1bn injection for Melbourne’s intermodal terminal scheme.