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Pumped hydro project in Kosciuszko national park is 67% complete, but supply chain cost increases and issues with a borer have caused cost overrun

Snowy Hydro is preparing for another significant cost overrun on the massive Snowy 2.0 project in the Kosciuszko national park, with a line-by-line reassessment ordered from contractors on Friday.

The giant pumped hydro project, first touted by the Turnbull government in 2017 as costing $2bn, was later revised to a cost of $5.9bn. Escalating to almost $13bn in 2023, construction is due to be completed by the end of 2028.

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Exclusive: Despite being signed up to a new alert system, the South Australian emergency service was not notified during September’s triple zero outage

South Australia’s ambulance service was signed up to a new system that is supposed to send notifications when Optus has a triple zero outage, but says it was not notified during the outage last month.

September’s triple zero outage was caused by a network firewall upgrade which blocked emergency calls for Optus customers in South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and parts of New South Wales.

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Beau Lamarre-Condon accuses NSW police of corruption as he formally pleads not guilty to murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

A police officer accused of the murder of a TV presenter and his partner claims he agreed to admit to manslaughter but prosecutors and police denied his offer.

As Beau Lamarre-Condon formally pleaded not guilty to the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies he interrupted the court to launch a tirade at investigators.

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