(big snip here)
>Interestingly, if by some miracle the line DID go through, then the managers
>of teh Melb-Darwin project have said that it would save them a pcket as they
>would not have to build the top end of the line.. they would just join up
>with the Adelaide line part way.
>
>My bet is
>
>a) the line doesn't go ahead
>
>b) the Melb-Darwin lien doesn't go ahead because the consortium will seek tax
>breaks which the Government won't give them
>
>c) The Qld and NT governments build a narrow gauge line from MT ISA to
>Darwin. (There .. remember I told you first...)
Didn't former Qld premier Joh B-P float that third one about 15 years
ago as an electioneering pork-barrel?
Roy