Re: House of Representatives Hansard 19971119

[telljb@ozemail.com.au (Terry Burton)]

arthur@gateway.dircsa.org.au (Arthur Marsh) wrote and I
quote in part:

>      Australian House of Representatives Hansard for 19th November 1997
>                                       
>                           QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
>                                 Rail Industry

[snip]

>Absolutely. And I can tell you who the guilty parties are: two state rail
>systems aided and abetted by the Railways Union of Australia. . .

>   Mr Tanner--And is that the federal government's fault?
>   Mr VAILE--Senator Schacht is talking about your policy as it was in
>   the previous government. Senator Schacht went on to say:

>. . . `This is the way we will rob money from the federal government for a
>new national rail corporation.' Based on what they wanted they were successful,
>but of course they rooted the whole system. Neil O'Keefe and I and a few others
>all voted against it, but we got done by the vested interests of those three
>groups. And you--
>   that is AN--
>are the poor victim.


>Arthur Marsh, telephone +61-8-8370-2365, fax +61-8-8223-5082 
>              arthur@dircsa.org.au
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That is exactly what a lot of us said a long time ago.

Australian National was destroyed by the Australian
Labor Party for pure political expediency.

----Tell
Alice Springs NT