Maybe my sarcasm meeter isn't sensitive enough but an independent report has been written. It can be found
here and it highlights the issues that have been talked about already in this and other threads...
Please do keep up.
Newcastle Airport at RAAF Base Williamtown is too far from the Sydney market to serve as Sydney’s second passenger airport. It is an important airport for the Hunter and Central Coast regions but its capacity to grow in the future needs to be settled, having principal regard to RAAF’s requirements for the site as its primary fighter base.
So now thats the RAAF and the Independent steering committee report reccomending that Williamtown not become Sydneys second airport.
The Badgerys Creek site, which was acquired by the Commonwealth between 1986 and 1991 for a future airport, remains the best site for an additional major RPT airport.