Re: April Digest - congrats Max Michell

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Grahame Ferguson" <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> Bill Bolton wrote in message ...
> >I shudder to think what any of the urban rail systems would be like
> >under Federal control.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Bill
> >
> >
> >Bill Bolton
> >Sydney, Australia
>
> Bill, the plan as construed by those who wanted federal control eg Whitlam
> et al, was for NON-URBAN to be under federal control while urban transit
was
> to be controlled by local authorities with some federal funding.
>
> Sections 98-104 of the Constitution refer to the control of INTERSTATE
> commerce as respect to railways.

So what would happen to Hunter Vally coal, Sydney-Blayney freights,
Melbourne-Geelong freights, etc.

As for NON-URBAN [sic] what about long distance passengers?

Dave