Re: NT govt may scuttle Darwin rail

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

I can't remember any Labor Government that was prepared to waste money on
this white elephant.

Bob.

< Tell > <telljb@OZozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> >
> > Today's Adelaide Advertiser reports that the NT government may withdraw
> > from the Alice Springs - Darwin project (taking its $100 million with
it)
> > over a dispute with the preferred construction tenderer. Chief Minister
> > Denis Burke says the Asia Pacific Transportation Corporation is not
> > pledging enough money to the project.
>
> Have not heard anything up here, yet.
>
> > APTC is currently trying to raise $800 million of private invesement.
The
> > SA and federal oppositions are calling on the Federal government to
invest
> > moe money in the project.
>
> Yes, it would seem that the "private" Alice to Darwin
> Railway, is very much depended on tax payers money.
>
> Opposition's promising money is easy, they do not have
> to account.  Even when Labor was in power, Bob Hawke
> sent David-SRA-Hill up here many years ago, to put the
> kybosh on the Alice to Darwin rail.
>
> Funny how, when the current Labor Opposition, Federal
> and South Australian were in government they did
> absolutely *nothing* when they were in Government to
> build this line.  The Territory government was alone.
>
> Am I a cynic.?  Yes.  59 years old makes me that way.
>
> ----Terry Burton
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