Keeping the 'issue' of a second Syd airport open for discussion for the past 30 years is no mere coincidence. Apart from the 'issue' being brought up every time an inept government needs a smoke screen and a convenient little herring when said inept government is under the spotlight, consider the other benefit of having this 'issue' remain on the books - This has provided successive governments and it's Ministers with opportunities to regularly meet, converse, discuss, review, postulate and ponder, all over fine wines, canopes and lobster at many exclusive restaurants, for decades, and all at the expense of the Aussie taxpayer. It is 'the rort that keeps on giving', OINK OINK.