YSBK - Rwy 18/36. -
Aviation Advertiser - Phelan : "Let's be quite clear about this. Several attendees at a meeting with the Bankstown airport management while privatisation was in process, confirm that Kim Ellis, the (then) general manager of Bankstown airport, told the meeting when it was discussing problems related to runway 18/36, that they could forget all of those complaints, because the closure was a condition of the company accepting the lease from the Commonwealth in the first place. That suggests that all the consultations with users and safety studies by CASA and Airservices have been a charade". (My bold)
Things to make you go Hmmm !. It begs the question - how many other 'charades' have been foisted on the long suffering public purse for little if no safety return. Love to see those tax dollars at work.