Originally Posted by
Cleared Visual
I also get the feeling you have never lived or done any kind of business in regional Australia. It's not just the locals who need to travel for medical appointments. What if your mum who lives in city is dying and there is no train til next Thursday? And a 3 day a week, 14 hour each way train trip is hardly conducive to doing any kind of business or encouraging investment in regional towns. Not all medical appointments are in the city - A bus isn't really an appropriare solution when a medical specialist needs to close their books for 3 or 4 days to travel to a country town. Most likely, they would just not go and have those patients to travel to them instead transferring the cost of travel to the patient. And how much less efficient is the justice system if magistrate needs an extra 3- 4 days to hear cases in a local court...
Spot on. KRviator obviously hasn’t tried to get a bus to Mornington Island lately, or a train to Northern Peninsula. Two and a bit hours by plane, vs a couple of days by car if the roads are open to the Cape or a lot longer if they’re closed. The teachers arent going to spend days driving in and out, and the kids going to boarding school in Cairns can’t either. The doctors that fly in for a week or two at a time to provide the only GP service in the more remote towns wont be adding an extra two days onto their commute - or in the event they have to, the costs will be passed on to either the locals or the taxpayer.