Farrah Tomazin

Farrah Tomazin
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Farrah Tomazin is The Sunday Age's state political editor. Farrah joined the paper in 2000, reporting on general news, courts and crime, local government and state politics. She was The Age's state political correspondent ahead the 2006 Victorian election, and later spent three years as education editor before becoming a feature writer on Victorian affairs. She returned to the state rounds press gallery for The Sunday Age in 2011.

Tunnel threat to St Kilda Road trees

Hundreds of trees will be removed from St Kilda Road to make way for the Metro rail tunnel, fuelling concerns about the environmental impact of the $11 billion project.

Sydney is embracing the technology for the North West Rail Link but Victoria says there are no plans for driverless trains.

Driverless trains: Sydney's getting them, should Melbourne too?

Driverless trains could be the way of the future for Melbourne, with one of the world's top transport chiefs suggesting that such a shift could make the city's rail network run more efficiently for passengers.

A decision on Uber's legality in Victoria is still to be made.

Blocking Uber is short-sighted, OECD report finds

Trying to stop ride-sharing apps such as Uber from entering the market is a short-sighted approach that fails to acknowledge the benefits for consumers and drivers, an OECD report has found.

Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan returned empty-handed this week after a trip to Canberra to make the case for ...

Metro Rail business case considered peak-hour fare hikes

Several strategies were considered but ultimately rejected as government weighed up how it would respond to overcrowding on trains.

An artist's impression of stage one of the East West Link.

It cost us $1 billion to scrap ... but could the East West Link soon be revived?

"Everything is the on the table," says chairman of body charged with taking the politics out of infrastructure planning.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has a $9.1 billion budget bonanza on his hands.

Andrews blown sky high

If the government was more open and accountable about its plans, elevated rail could end up being a small price to pay for a modern and reliable transport system.

The Eye and Ear Hospital in East Melbourne.

Hospital gets $30m lifeline to finish redevelopment

Patients at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital will have a new five-level building with seven operating rooms, recovery spaces, extra beds, a new emergency department and outpatients consulting rooms.

Federation flub: the Prime Minister and the premiers at Friday's COAG meeting.

Andrews to PM: 'Let them stay'

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has written to the Prime Minister offering to "accept full responsibility" for the families and children brought to Australia from Nauru.

Some Labor members claim the decision to allow another duck hunting season leaves the party vulnerable to the Greens.

Andrews faces internal Labor dissent over duck hunting

Premier Daniel Andrews faces internal dissent over his government's decision to allow another duck hunting season – despite Labor's own environmental policy committee calling for a permanent ban.