Just for a bit of balance, here is the alternative argument from the Airports Association
Aviation Business: Airports Association provides perspective missing from ACCC report
I must admit to being somewhat disappointed with the performances of some journalists; many articles today seem to reflect a strong bias towards one party or the other, in this case airport operators. Personal commentary should never be required. And here's me thinking that a journalist's role was to INVESTIGATE issues and provide a BALANCED assessment by providing the perspectives of all players in an issue. But I've now come to realise that investigative journalism probably went out the door with the WMD issue in Iraq.