Re: Melbourne to Darwin

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

Tell wrote in message <6ncags$c6b$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
>"Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>>Well that means it's a *complete* waste of money.
>
>
>Could be, ......but most of it will be private capital.
>
>That is slightly more palatable than the public money
>that have been wasted over the years on the most
>disjointed, fractured and parochial rail system in the
>world, the "Railways of Australia".
>
>Gough Whitlam for all his faults gave Australia the
>chance back in the seventies for a large country with a
>very small population base to put railways on a unified
>basis, it was rejected, it will never be sorted now.
>
>----Tell
>Alice Springs NT
>

Yer not wrong there, Tell!


Barry Campbell