This thing will never be built. The population density is not there.
Hydrologic engineering makes much more sense less move water from north Australia to the south by the natural gravity means.
There a small elevation south of Mount Isa that prohibits the movement of water.
If you give water to the inland then build up populations and then look at this train idea
But parliaments only run 3 years and these projects are for thinkers that don't live in the 24 hour news cycle.
In fact where are the dams Barnaby Joyce told us they were going to build in the North?
