Re: Alice Springs - Darwin contract signing this week

["Peter Berrett" <pberrett@optushome.com.au>]

Queensland Fruit & processed food could be sold to Asia. Indonesian
manufactured goods could be brought from Darwin to Brisbane

cheers peter

Brown Family <lbrown2@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:23:54 GMT, "Peter Berrett"
> <pberrett@optushome.com.au> wrote:
>
> >
> >Its funny as Mt Isa will not be too far from the standard gauge line.
Surely
> >as a minimum there will be a temptation to spur a line off to Mt Isa.
> >
> >Dual gauge freight trains could then run freight Darwin - Mt Isa -
Brisbane.
>
> Why?
>
> What for?
>
> Is there a need to ship Mt Isa's dirt to Asia?
>
> What has NQ got to offer Darwin and Asia that they can't supply
> themselves?
>
> What is it that Asia has that only Qld needs?
>
> Methinks its livestock-to-Mansfield type thinking here folks.
>
> Les Brown