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Ructions in NSW Labor Left … Sydney Airport on sweet tax deal? … WTF is with this heading …
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Sydney Airport capacity crunch needs more than a bumper sticker
Labor is backing the wrong plan and the Liberals are hopelessly split: the debate over a second Sydney Airport inspires much debate but little in the way of real-world solutions to a looming capacity crunch.
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Sydney 2nd airport quest about to choose old favourite. Again.
Badgerys Creek, the 2nd Sydney Airport site that keeps defying the stunted visions of Federal Labor and the NSW Coalition governments, is about to be anointed by yet another ‘independent’ study.
READ MORESecond Sydney airport: BOF caught flat-footed, Albo done by wrinkles
The latest episode in the second Sydney Airport saga — the one that flared on Good Friday and has been blazing away ever since — has taken a turn for the worse for NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell’s credibility.
READ MOREWarren Truss: Brisbane and Melbourne can be Sydney’s international airport
It seems that NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell’s worst friend in the second Sydney Airport story is National Party leader Warren Truss, writes Ben Sandilands.
READ MORESeeking a visionary, visible transport innovation in Sydney
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READ MOREWould high speed rail solve Sydney’s airport woes?
The inability of successive NSW and Australian governments to construct a second Sydney airport is taking on the proportions of a national tragedy, writes Alan Davies.
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READ MORESydney’s second airport has all sides of politics in trouble
If you were a stranger in Sydney this morning in a taxi that had just endured the congestion at its small, dysfunctional airport, you’d be blasted by talkback radio in full frenzy over its second Sydney airport saga.
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Sydney’s second airport site emerges from the flood
It’s been obvious for a long time that Badgery’s Creek or the adjacent Nepean site has long been unofficially recognised as the only answer to its urgent need for a second major airport, writes Ben Sandilands.
READ MORELeave Sydney alone!
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READ MOREMelbourne dreams of new airport but Sydney’s still stuck in gridlock
For Premier Barry O’Farrell, the economic consequences of the weekend announcement by Victoria’s peak business body of its enthusiasm for a third Melbourne airport is probably under acute analysis
READ MORESydney gridlock leaves it stuck in the past
A third airport for Melbourne would mean a chance to usurp Sydney as the economic capital of Australia.
READ MOREWhy political strangulation of Sydney Airport is a farce
At Sydney Airport, jets are being told to stay on the ground, ready to take off, waiting 20 minutes or more, because the airport has exceeded its politically imposed capacity for airliner movements.
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Imaginary conversations with the NSW Premier about high-speed rail
NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell said that any high speed rail project would be better off linking Canberra Airport so it could act as a second Sydney Airport. This could go two ways, imagines Ben Sandilands.
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What if IT IS a bomb in someone’s underpants?
The latest distraction in the airport security circus came to town this morning with the launch of a three week trial of a G rated full body scanner at Sydney’s international terminal, writes Ben Sandilands.
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Jetstar v fools at Sydney T2
Jetstar’s decision to sue Sydney Airport if necessary for damages arising from yesterday’s security shambles means challenges the political investment in security theatrics in Australia, writes Ben Sandilands.
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Jetstar to sue over airport
evacuation
Sydney Airport did its best to gloss over the security fiasco at its T2 domestic terminal yesterday.
READ MORESecond Sydney Airport debate takes a comic break
It hasn’t taken long for the renewed debate over a 2nd airport for Sydney to take a comic break, provided by the National Party leader Warren Truss, writes Ben Sandilands.
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Is Albo a genius or a fool?
Federal Transport and Infrastructure Minister, Anthony Albanese, has spoken about the imperative to have a second airport in Sydney yet continues to rule out building on the site Federal Labor chose in 1985, writes Ben Sandilands.
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Hong Kong’s fancy new terminal shames Sydney
The announcement of a new midfield terminal for Hong Kong airport is another painful reminder of planning policy failure at Sydney Airport. Both cities are faced with growth prospects that cannot be accommodated with existing infrastructure and Hong Kong is setting an innovative example, writes Ben Sandilands.
READ MORETime and expediency heal all wounds at Sydney Airport
Sydney Airport has officially endorsed a protest slogan on the side of an airliner eight years after it was lawyers at 10 paces with Virgin Blue for flying around with an anti-Sydney Airport decal, writes Ben Sandilands.
READ MOREWhere could a super Sydney airport be built?
Former Virgin Blue CEO Brett Godfrey has started some soul as well as airport site searching with his suggestion that a new single super-sized Sydney airport be considered for solving its airport crisis, reports Ben Sandilands.
READ MOREVirgin chief: no second Sydney airport, let’s super-size this one
CEO of Virgin Blue, Brett Godfrey, last night challenged government, business and the airline sector to scrap the quest for a second Sydney airport and pursue an all new, super-sized Sydney Airport.
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