Australia to spend $80m on business case for Sydney-Newcastle high speed rail

The announcement of a business case budget is the latest development in the Albanese government's slow moving high speed rail project

The Albanese government will spend $80m developing a business case for the Sydney-to-Newcastle stretch of its east coast high speed rail line, as the decades-long project inches further forward.

The transport minister, Catherine King, said the allocation of $78.8m was part of Labor's $500m election commitment to the early stages of high speed rail, with the initial Sydney-Newcastle leg representing a crucial waypoint" on the project.

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