Badgery's Creek YET AGAIN!
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It looks like Barry won't be building anything. He has just resigned after a thank you letter has appeared for the $3000 bottle of Grange wine has surfaced 
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Everyone here needs to take a deep breath and calm down.
Yes, a decision has been made, just like the last 10 decisions (or is that 13). We have already lost Barry. Tony will announce a a huge reduction in expenditure come the May budget. Yes, it will contain funding for the new airport but it will be 5-10 years down the track. In the meantime budget is out of control and liberal backbenchers from the west of Sydney oppose the airport and hold valuable votes in any leadership battle. The decision/proposal will then be allowed to quietly die off.
Just like all the others😯
Yes, a decision has been made, just like the last 10 decisions (or is that 13). We have already lost Barry. Tony will announce a a huge reduction in expenditure come the May budget. Yes, it will contain funding for the new airport but it will be 5-10 years down the track. In the meantime budget is out of control and liberal backbenchers from the west of Sydney oppose the airport and hold valuable votes in any leadership battle. The decision/proposal will then be allowed to quietly die off.
Just like all the others😯
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Once the Federal government give the go-ahead, Mac Bank has 9 months to decide if they want to build and run the second airport.
Hopefully the government has learned from its mistakes at Mascot, and won't allow the second airport such free reign with parking costs, pickup and drop off fees and restrictions etc, and other features that will make passengers actually WANT to go to Badgerys Creek instead of Mascot.
Hopefully the government has learned from its mistakes at Mascot, and won't allow the second airport such free reign with parking costs, pickup and drop off fees and restrictions etc, and other features that will make passengers actually WANT to go to Badgerys Creek instead of Mascot.
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Airport to be built and operational within 2 years (prefab buildings from China would see to that).
Corruption in big business/industries & Govt institutions will take care of anything happening quickly here, someone has gotta make a buck out of all this without turning wheel on site!
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One pertinent point here,I believe , is that Abbot is very aware of the accusation that the Howard years were wasted with regards to infrastructure construction--of course, without all the money that was banked during that time, Labour couldn't have spent it's way through the GFC and then claimed they "saved" us with brilliant governance.. 
Anyway,I digress. This is precisely the sort of infrastructure project he can get going, and then hold up as an example of how to get things done. It's really ready made-the need is there,the land is already owned, the rail is most of the way there already, as are the roads, and regardless of what local Labour members may say, majority of people in the west really want it. And want it as a 24 hour operation--So much of the curfew on Mascot was about saving the vote in Albanese's electorate, and the party hack who had it before him, can't remember his name.
Of course, I may be completely wrong, and the rampant cynicism expressed in most of the posts on this may prove to be well--founded. Time will tell. Just remember that this is a bloke who is not poll-driven, and will REALLY dig his heels in when the pressure is on. Just ask Allan Joyce.
Anyway,I digress. This is precisely the sort of infrastructure project he can get going, and then hold up as an example of how to get things done. It's really ready made-the need is there,the land is already owned, the rail is most of the way there already, as are the roads, and regardless of what local Labour members may say, majority of people in the west really want it. And want it as a 24 hour operation--So much of the curfew on Mascot was about saving the vote in Albanese's electorate, and the party hack who had it before him, can't remember his name.Of course, I may be completely wrong, and the rampant cynicism expressed in most of the posts on this may prove to be well--founded. Time will tell. Just remember that this is a bloke who is not poll-driven, and will REALLY dig his heels in when the pressure is on. Just ask Allan Joyce.
Just remember that this is a bloke who is not poll-driven, and will REALLY dig his heels in when the pressure is on. Just ask Allan Joyce.
