It requires a determined embrace of stupidity in communications for a major Australian airport, in this case Melbourne’s, to issue a very good draft development plan for public comment and hide critical text and graphics behind gigantic words DRAFT on its website.
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SYDNEY AIRPORT
Guess who isn’t building a second Sydney Airport?
Well, that has to be the best news for a new airport in the Sydney basin for years. Sydney Airport chairman, Max Moore Wilton, has given Fairfax Media the definitive commitment not to put SACL’s hand up to exercise its first right of refusal to build a second Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek
READ MORECoal may have killed any chance of a Wilton Airport
In a media conference after the release of the Wilton ‘suitability’ study, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese made some observations about mine subsidence that may bury any chance of a Wilton Airport being built.
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Sydney Airport (Wilton) study all about Badgerys Creek
If Tony Abbott was delivering Anthony Albanese’s study into the suitability of Wilton as a site for a 2nd Sydney Airport which was released today he would have described it as ‘dead, buried and cremated.’
READ MORESydney airport fiasco about to get worse
There is no escaping the disastrous and deliberate stuff ups in the 2nd Sydney Airport saga that will be made worse today if you read any of the Sydney newspapers.
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Richmond on the radar for ‘relief’ Sydney flights
Richmond keeps going ‘ping’ on the political radar screens as a limited use ‘relief’ airport for Sydney while the solution, a second full sized airport in the Sydney basin, awaits bipartisan political support.
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Qantaslink helps fix Sydney’s terminal divides with T3 move
This may seem like a small step, make that steps, in the right direction, but the Qantaslink move from T2 to the main Qantas T3 domestic terminal at Sydney Airport is going to save around one million travellers a year the frustration of schlepping from one to the other
READ MOREBadgerys Creek backed by business/union pact
The difference between news media that works 24 hours a day, and those that stick to office hours and serve up stale reports is painfully apparent this morning.
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Sydney airport congestion and some missing information
Action alert on 2nd Sydney Airport? Ministerial statement, rapid work on Badgerys Creek friendly rail link, hints of more to come. The suspense is …. suspenseful.
READ MOREHouses galore for Wilton 2nd Sydney airport site
The NSW government is putting federal Labor’s preferred site for a 2nd Sydney Airport at Wilton out of its misery by releasing plans for thousands of new homes all over it, as part of wide ranging release of metropolitan land for housing.
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PM goes west, ducks real Sydney airport issues
Flanked by Infrastructure and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese and the most endangered fauna in western Sydney, its Labor members, Gillard slammed the NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell’s ‘no new airport, no way, no where’ policy but insisted despite questioning that the ‘focus’ of the government was all about a study of an alternative site at Wilton, which is sufficiently inconvenient and difficult in terrain and location to ensure that it will fail.
READ MOREWhen Not Yet means Yes to 2nd Sydney Airport
The AFR report that nixes any decision on the development of a second Sydney Airport until after the Federal Election won’t surprise anyone, but the consequences may.
READ MOREStench of scandal from Badgerys Creek dogs Labor
The political risk in the association of the interests of alleged murderer Ron Medich and his brother Ray with the persistent refusal of Labor to build the second airport it insists Sydney needs on site which a former Labor government selected, purchased and protected in 1986 ought to be blindingly obvious to the party.
READ MORESydney media tests the election cycle over Badgerys Creek
Can common sense and economic necessity break the rule that a second Sydney Airport is out of bounds for politics in an election year at any level of government?
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Airport ‘wars’ break out on two fronts in Australia
Without an airport, Sydney West is generating demand for flights out of the existing airport in Sydney’s East that is caused commuter congestion around that airport, and adversely affecting traffic flows across the metropolitan area.
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