Nulli,
what you say all makes perfect sense, unfortunately it assumes that the land airports sit on was reserved for aviation. The South side development breaches the airports act, the environmental protection act, and allegedly quite a few other federal and State laws. To get Murky Mandarins and ministers of the crown to bypass the law takes considerable, shall we say "greasing of the wheels", but flinging money into the right pockets is all part and parcel of being a development shark.
Just like a great white shark, development sharks bite out a chunk, then when the victim has weakened from bloodloss returns to finish it off.
I fear the Development on the South side of the airport is just stage one of the total redevelopment of Bankstown into some industrial utopia.
It is alleged the developer has already stated to a government Senator, that the South side development will lead to the closure of Bankstown as an airport, apparently it all was preordained, perhaps by the Murky Mandarins who engineered the original sale via Mc Bank. Wouldn't you just love to know what their reward may be?
It is claimed the development will employ thousands of shop assistants when it is finished, which goes down well with spin believing punters, hey they could probably get some university to make a degree in shop assisting, the country is on a race to the bottom after all.
How many thousands of engineers, technicians and highly skilled people did the airport employ in its heyday, before an incompetent, capricious regulator killed it off? How many highly skilled people were trained and got their start at the Airport? How much employment and contribution to the GDP could have been generated if General aviation had been allowed to flourish? Why is a shopping precinct, flogging Chinese made merchandise a better proposition than somewhere that actually makes something?
The answer my friends is blowing in the wind.
I'm told Bankstown has been resold, to an infrastructure company interested to developing an airport, as an airport??
Nope, another development shark or perhaps the current one using a proxy.
Last edited by thorn bird; 3rd Oct 2015 at 21:48.