Some say the East West Link has gone down: game, set and match. But there's rarely a match point in politics.
Imagine if the streets of inner-city Australia teemed with small, quiet motorcycles, scooters and bicycles with only the occasional car or truck. Imagine if they looked more like Hanoi than LA.
The NT’s juvenile detention system's staff are undertrained, operational practices are haphazard and overly punitive, and there have been cover-ups when things go wrong. And the system is doing nothing to rehabilitate the young people it locks up.
Qantas faces a contest between higher efficiency and its legendary excellence in engineering and maintenance. Let's hope it gets it right.
Australia is about to get a lot more wide-body airplanes. Unfortunately, they won't be any roomier.
