Albanese does nothing on Sydney Airports

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Who would of thought!

(many emotion's over flowing all of a sudden)

Jumbo-sized row over Sydney Airport


Illustration: Cathy Wilcox

THE awarding of the 2014 Group of 20 leaders summit to Brisbane has reignited the fight over a second Sydney airport after the federal government said it based its decision on an admission the airport did not have the capacity to park up to 40 jumbo jets.
While the NSW government accused the Gillard government of opting for Brisbane in a blatant bid to win votes in a hostile Queensland, the federal government cited Sydney's inadequate airport and the fact the convention centre would be out of action at the time due to renovations.
The Herald has been told that during the assessment process to determine the host city, Sydney Airport Corporation told the government it could not accommodate the numbers of wide-bodied aircraft in a short time frame ''without causing significant impact on their commercial operation''.
''The federal government anticipated that during the G20 we would need to accommodate up to 40 of these wide bodied aircraft, overnight, on short time frames,'' a source said.

The corporation did not dispute the parking problem yesterday but doubted whether Brisbane could accommodate all the planes either.
The chairman of the corporation, Max Moore-Wilton, dismissed other government concerns that Sydney Airport was at full capacity and could not accommodate the extra takeoff and landing slots without severe disruption.
He told the Herald the airport had been coping with the same volume of traffic since 2000 and during that time it had handled the Olympics and APEC in 2007, which is similar in size and calibre to the G20. ''We coped with those, we would have coped with this,'' he said.

During APEC, the airport managed to park most planes in spare Qantas hangars but that space is now filled by the airline's A-380 Airbuses.
The Transport Minister, Anthony Albanese, has been warning the NSW government it needs to approve a second airport or the city will start missing such opportunities.

''There needs to be an acknowledgment right across the board that if Sydney is to maintain our position as a global city we do need a second airport, we do need to deal with these infrastructure issues,'' he said.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said by comparison, Brisbane's convention centre was ''in fantastic nick'' and the much bigger airport was well positioned to deal ''with the pressure that will come with so many world leaders all arriving in quite a compressed window of time and then leaving in quite a compressed window of time''.

The G20 will involve 20 of the world's most powerful leaders, five non-G20 leaders, seven heads of international organisations including the United Nations, and about 7000 delegates and media.
The state Planning Minister, Brad Hazzard, rejected the government's reasoning.
''This is about Julia Gillard wanting to get more numbers in a state that is already saying no to Labor,'' he said.
Mr Hazzard said with the convention centre out of action, NSW had offered the Opera House and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

''To take the G20 leaders to Brisbane when you had the chance to bring them to this wonderful, wonderful city is simply an indication that Julia Gillard is willing to use the political leaders of the world as her personal political playthings,'' he said. ''What the leaders of Russia and Britain will think when they're told they're going to go to Brisbane over Sydney one only can guess.''
The Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, gloated that Queensland had won the state-of-origin series and now the G20


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You gotta laugh, history says our pollies left or right, just don't have a clue about anything to do with aviation, transport, nor have any of them appear to have learnt or come across the true meaning of the word "infrastructure," although, this mystery word is used daily by these talking shop "organiser hosts," who appear to be now struggling to get organised to host!

Thank God they don't fly or fix planes, we would all be on 4 stopovers before they decided the destination .......

found a link that kinda sums things up....

The Lessons Learned – Worst Mistakes Ever Made

To keep this light, though on point, here are the tracks to my 'Worst Mistakes' blues CD:

1. Forgetting the Reason which prompted your action:
I think you could apply this principle to every corner of life. It is very bad to loose sight of the reason you started something, launched a project, or even why you maintain certain relationships.
This is what allows madness to have its own life. I look at software development in very much the same way. At some juncture, and usually at great cost, the ego must be checked and remembering the reason you started a project should take the foreground.
Though, I can't say I've actually witnessed this acknowledgment too often, you know the usual suspects: Technologies seemingly selected as resume boosters or for some idiosyncratic bias, good money thrown after bad because 'we've invested so much already' or just simple disconnects from the folks whose input is so critical to the reason.
The end game should never fall into obfuscation. If you set out to build something, its purpose shouldn't be so opaque as to remind others of cable guy Roy Neary's mountain project in 'Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind'.

2. Ego over Reason
Yep, this is a crippler. We've seen multi-million dollar technology projects roll past all projections of time and expediture. Changed requirements provided by the business, but wait, none of them are with the firm anymore. Gee, so now you're building out infrastructure, coding applications, hyping expectations and when you finally get to the dance your date says "why did you wear THAT? and oh, I didn't know you drove an '87 Escort...".
Ego hurts. Well, sometimes it kills. And sometimes wasted money is just that. Wasted money. Point is, while it takes a lot to admit a mistake and put a stop to the bleeding, your CFO will likely thank you.
In the end, knowing when to kill a project is as important as knowing when to start one.

3. Pedal to the Metal
Momentum. Like ego, can kill.
We always hear about 'ramping up'. We never hear about proceeding with caution; heck, let's just throw that to the wind. Momentum without tangible proof of concept is the equivalent of riding solely on emotion. And while emotion is both powerful and useful, engineering is based on objective facts and proven results. This leads back to reason. So, I would suggest that too much vision and too little proof is another worst mistake.

4. Your Candor makes me Cringe
Jack Welch, in his best selling book Winning, devotes a segment solely to candor and its importance. What he's really referring to is the inability of many companies to allow the truth to surface. Too often, those who speak the truth are regarded as dissenters and are met with reprisal or dismissal. Kudos to Jack for chasticing this practice and instead fostering a culture that values honesty at GE. Too bad for those elsewhere whose reluctance to embrace valid employee candor was their worst mistake.

5. The Breakup Song
It's true that people who are incompetent should go. But is it possible for everyone to be incompetent? I mean, really?
Ok, let's add 'changing players so often that your learning curve never improves' to the list of mistakes.
Somewhere, you have a core team that needs a voice and forum. They need a leader and mentor. Give them a voice and be a good coach to get real answers.

6. I Only Needed a Chevy (Mercedes Benz Blues)
So, we know all about ailing Detroit and their bail-outs; this item isn't anything about them. It's simply a commentary on the purpose of technology, or at least one of them - especially as it concerns business, technology's role and the very timely debate of needs versus wants.
Technology should sit at the table and play the role of enabler. Our primary mission should be to solve business problems, maximize operational effort and provide competitive edge in our respective industries. If your technology's 'slick factor' is a differentiator, then perhaps it makes sense to build the Mercedes of applications or infrastructure. There are, however, too many times when all that is needed is a Chevy!


Yep, you heard it here.
Now where's my hanky?....
..mistakes!


The Lessons Learned

Sort of fits ..