by Chris McCormack Murray Basin Rail Project could cost double the budgeted $440 million Rail upgrades essential but gauge standardisation questionable Auditor-General says project “not yet achieving the outcomes expected” The Murray Basin Rail Project (MBRP), which aims to upgrade and standardise 1,055 kilometres of rail lines in Victoria’s northwest, linking freight trains to the…
by Patrick J. Byrne Morrison should announce plan for expanding manufacturing expanding to 15% of GDP by 2035: Creating around 1-2 million full-time, well paid jobs. With $1 trillion invested by government, new development bank, commercial banks and equity. Securing Australia’s economic and strategic future. Scott Morrison has announced the fast-tracking of around $72 billion…
AN OLD PERSON’S OBSERVATION In the era between World War II and the mid 1970s, Australia could manufacture a vast range of products – planes, cars, ships and a million things in between. Practically anything we wanted could be made in Australia. Here we are in 2020 and, after selling our industries to mainly Chinese…
A MANDARIN – ONCE HUMAN I once knew an economist on his way to becoming a madman. His gaze did not engage with mine but descended with the certainty of one from a master race. His vision was on far-off peaks, global outcomes, oiled by the ideology of materialism, consumerism, supply and demand equilibrium, cause…
