From Gladstone to Kalgoorlie, from Darwin to Hobart, and many other towns and cities across Australia, if you want to take a trip by public transport, you can use Google’s world-class mapping tools to help plan it. In fact Google Transit now covers public transport timetables for every state and territory in the country… except Victoria, including all the other capital cities.

This week Public Transport Minister Terry Mulder wrote in reply to Twitter user Tim Cooke, saying PTV is expecting to be able to provide Google Transit with data from early 2015. We’d love to believe it, but having heard the same promise many times before, we’re not holding our breath.