Having spent most of the years between 1988 and 2000 flying out of Richmond, I'm a little flabbergasted that yet again someone is raising this proposal. Though I'd be very tempted to say it'll go the same way as the other 500 "proposals" of developing YSRI as Sydney's 2nd airport.
Has anyone got any good flood photos from 1986, 1988, 1990 or 1992? Oh never mind. I remember being quite happy at having the days off for several of those floods because I couldn't get to the base from any direction!
Plus, yes I can confirm many a day sitting in the crewroom wondering whether the fog will life by midday and watching all the cancellations on the ops board (in fact scrubbing quite a bit of the flying program myself!).
Oh well. If they decide to go ahead, good luck to them. Don't say I didn't warn you!