Spin spin spin
And Mr Russell's claim to fame? A government bureaucrat and that is about it. Here is a novel approach. Make the fc#king mining giants pay for it! You got it, the additional airspace management, towers, controllers, technology, ground infrastructure, extensions to sh#t airports like Perth. They (the mining companies) are the ones raping our Australian earth, flogging our assets overseas and paying a minimum cost for the priveledge. Make Gina, Big Clive and any other mining comglomerate fund the lot.
But no, our bureaucrats will dither, they will tax the mining companies disproportionately (not enough) and either make the fuc#king taxpayer kick the tin or simply piss away the mining royalties like they have done for years. They will bend over and grab their ankles for big business as usual. Government is good at extracting money but useles at re-investing it. And the current government made up of inept nupties couldn't manage the sale of pink cupcakes at a church fundrasier let alone have the balls to make the responsible big businesses pay for the infrastructure.
But don't hold your breath, Russell will go public yet again, quoting some bureaucratic wankery like: 'We have employed an extra 2.38 controllers in the western corridor, and 'we have implemented some robust systems to counteract the negative effects of the rapid growth', and 'we are consulting with industry and the affected regions to seek a robust solution', yada yada yada. Spin spin spin.
What is this blokes solution, well he says 'please Mr Mining Company, adjust your rosters'! How funny is that ****e, and he gets paid how much of our taxpayer money per year??
Imagine the look on these bureaucrats faces in let's say 2 years time when they wake up from their afternoon slumber (that was induced by another pig out from the overflowing trough) and they realize that Queensland and selected corridor's around its SE, north and west are becoming overcrowded and under resourced infrastructure wise due to mining growth?