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Re: AP to Darwin on hold "YET AGAIN"

Subject: Re: AP to Darwin on hold "YET AGAIN"
From: David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:36:34 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: a roadblock on the Information Superhighway
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Grahame Ferguson wrote:
> This line will not pay for itself, but was the Trans-Australian line ever
> intended to be
> profitable?  It was built for political purposes at taxpayer expense.

Building the line was one of the conditions put by Western Australia
before it would join the Commonwealth. WA threatened to declare
independence at one stage, which prompted the Commonwealth to actually
build the line.

Anyway, how much profit did the Hume Highway make last year? Or in any
year?

cheers
David

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