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Oct 2023
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Australia's $125 BILLION New Railway - #...

The B1M
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This week, Luke is ill so Fred & Liam are covering The B1M's latest video: "Australia is Building a $125BN Mega-Railway". Melbourne's metro upgrade is on a scale we’ve never seen before.


Later in the episode, we cover:



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We end the show with two emails from Benjamin Ryan and Liam Spinks.


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