Railing against rail loop put Matthew Guy back on track - but there’s a long way to go

With 14 weeks until the Victorian state election, the opposition has a mountain to climb in order to form government

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Victoria's opposition leader, Matthew Guy, effectively fired the starter's gun on the state election campaign this week when he announced the Coalition would shelve the Suburban Rail Loop - the largest infrastructure project in the history of the state - if it wins in November.

After two weeks of negative headlines about a proposed donation scheme, which prompted the resignations of several key members of his team, Guy's announcement seized back the initiative.