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One Comment
Who would have guessed that submitting multi-billion infrastructure plans with costings and justifications written on the back of beer coasters wasn’t a winning strategy?
Depending on how cynical one is feeling, the willingness of the Federal ALP to so publicly repudiate the NSW ALP displayed:
a) an unexpected degree of common sense and policy rationality;
b) an understanding that since the next federal election is due before the NSW election, there is no way the Federal ALP was going to cruel its chances by short-changing the rest of Australia to prop up the deeply corrupt and incompetent NSW ALP.
I had assumed that the feds would bail out the NSW ALP whatever the cost.
The Rees government bet the farm on getting massive federal funding for its CBD-Rozelle Metro, which it was going to use as the centrepiece of its re-election campaign. The massive $5.8 billion (and counting) spend for 7 lousy kilometres of metro would have been used to line the pockets of the developer, construction and financing companies that keep the NSW ALP afloat these days. They in turn would have recycled some of those funds to finance the NSW ALP’s election campaign.
That the federal government wasn’t willing to come to the party may have had something to do with the corporatist planning and construction culture described in the following Crikey article:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/26/why-rail-projects-in-nsw-cost-three-times-as-much-as-they-should/