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11/01/20
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Originally posted by moorookamick:
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If Australia wants to embark on a nation building project then surely a railway from Longreach to the Pilbara is the answer. Justification: (a) This railway will connect the Iron ore mines of the Pilbara with the Met coal mines of Queensland & provide an infrastructure base for Australia to be the biggest steel maker in the world. (b) China is forging ahead with a China to Europe railway & highway system so why cane we do a mini version of that here in Aus? (c) We have spent $60 billion on a silly NBN which will obsolete within a decade due to 5G (d) Our ancestors forged a railway across Australia connecting Sydney & Perth over a hundred years ago (when the Poms owned us) (e) Distance from Longreach to the Pilbara = 2400 Klms (China has built 36,000 Ks of high speed rail in the past decade! (f) We have racked up $trillion debt over the past decade ( Commonwealth, State & Municipal) with nothing to show for it except an obsolescent NBN The detractors will say we cant do it ( cant bat, cant bowl brigade) but if our ancestors had a similar opinion we would'nt have our current rail network or the Snowy Mountain Hydro Scheme! Perhaps we'll have to leave it until we become a Chinese Colony and the Chinese will do it for us...eh? Except we'll be the Coolies then !
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Joh Bjelke Petersen proposed such a railway back in the 1970's. As usual it was too hard for the other Pollies to run with. A total lack of visionary politicians in Australia and a media with its own agenda!!