Re: Alice-Darwin rail link investor pulls out

[Martin Barr-David <martbd@optushome.com.au>]

We should set up a fund to fund this development.

Grahame Ferguson wrote:

> It is amazing the ALP when they were in Government offered the NT & SA
> governments $300m towards the cost of the line, but the offer was rejected
> as being insufficient.
>
> When John Howard offered $200m the offer was accepted and hailed as a
> breakthrough!
>
> If the Commonwealth has set a date for the railway to be constructed then
> they can be taken to the High Court as part of the 1949 agreement with the
> Commonwealth and the goverments to standardise railways within that state.
>
> The Commonwealth had been taken to the High Court many years ago for a
> railway to be constructed from, but as there was no set date the state lost
> the case.
>
> So much for Rail Infrastruction funding by the Commonwealth.
>
> All they have really done is sell of any rail assets they owned.
>
> Probably only some marginal seats in SA and the NT(a new seat will be
> created in the NT for the next federal election) for the next federal
> election, or the expected SA election this year may change the "Line to
> Nowhere's" fortune.
>
> regards,
>
> Grahame.