Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: "We are investing in the biggest rail modernisation since the Victorian era and fares have a crucial role to play in funding these improvements.
We are making the biggest investment in roads since the 1970s and the biggest in rail since Victorian times, connecting 40,000 premises to superfast broadband every week, and starting an energy revolution with the first new nuclear plant in a generation, the world's first green investment bank and the largest production of offshore wind on the planet.
The northern Victorian seat was won narrowly by the independent Cathy McGowan over the Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella.
McGowan said she was "very relieved and very proud" to have won the closely-fought contest for the rural Victorian electorate, following Mirabella's concession on Wednesday morning.
As a further insult, London bristles with two-storey Victorian terraces that are a wildly inefficient use of such coveted space.
In an interview with the Guardian and a collection of other newspapers at his campaign office, Carswell instead placed himself in the tradition of the great Victorian Liberal prime minister William Gladstone rather than the Tory Benjamin Disraeli.
A handful of objects including a Victorian cast of the head of a hanged man and a delicate lace pillow embroidered with her own hair by a woman arrested hundreds of times for public drunkenness have left one of the most private collections in the world for the first time, for the first public exhibition from the Black Museum of the Metropolitan police.
It is reminiscent of tuberculosis sanatoria built in Victorian times well away from cities, both to give the patients the benefits of nature and to protect everybody else from infection.
Look closely at the murals, though, and you'll see they have none of the grand swagger usually associated with Victorian public art.
Addressing the crowd in Melbourne, Victorian governor Alex Chernov said the day was about celebrating aspects of the nation that make Australians proud.
In his Christmas 2014 picture he was wearing long socks and a sweater vest and looked like a little Victorian lord.
