 Cement is also despatched to Mildura from Waurn Ponds (near Geelong), oil and LCL containers were carried until 2007.Today Mildura lacks passenger rail services, but it is a stop on a number of V/Line operated coach routes.A service review was announced by the Bracks Government in 2000, in part due to the independent politician Russell Savage enabling the formation of a minority Labor government in the 1999 Victorian state election.