Infrastructure • Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/politics/infrastructure/ On politics, media, business, the environment and life Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:51:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1.png?quality=70&w=32 Infrastructure • Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/politics/infrastructure/ 32 32 232040107 Bridget McKenzie is right. We need powers to break up Qantas https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/10/bridget-mckenzie-is-right-we-need-powers-to-break-up-qantas/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/10/bridget-mckenzie-is-right-we-need-powers-to-break-up-qantas/#comments Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:51:32 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1174088 Bridget McKenzie (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)Bridget McKenzie might have been told by the Coalition leadership to pull her head in, but she's dead right on divestment powers in aviation.

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Labor’s billion-dollar manufacturing fund is ripe for exploitation and pork-barrelling https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/20/labor-future-made-in-australia-manufacturing-billion-dollar-fund-secrecy/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/20/labor-future-made-in-australia-manufacturing-billion-dollar-fund-secrecy/#comments Tue, 20 Aug 2024 02:05:59 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1170951 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)There's too much secrecy surrounding Labor's Future Made In Australia fund, which is ripe for exploitation and pork-barrelling.

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‘Why on earth should Gladys lose her pension?’ Crikey readers on Berejiklian’s post-ICAC prospects https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/07/your-say-gladys-berejiklian-gas-protests-rex-bailout/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/07/your-say-gladys-berejiklian-gas-protests-rex-bailout/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:57:36 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1168784 Former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian (Image: AAP/Dean Lewins)Also in today's Your Say: What makes protest ‘peaceful’, outrage over new gas permits, and the slim chance of a government bailout for Rex.

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Rex is Labor’s chance to terrify Qantas and curtail its gouging, lying and rorting https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/31/rex-airlines-bailout-qantas-competition/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/31/rex-airlines-bailout-qantas-competition/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:11:30 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1168133 A Rex Airlines worker looks on as a plane arrives (Image: AAP/Luis Ascui)A bailout of Rex Airlines is the perfect vehicle for the government to re-enter aviation and subject Qantas to real competition.

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High-speed rail is one of France’s crowning achievements, even when it’s under attack https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/29/tgv-high-speed-rail-france-paris-2024-olympics/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/29/tgv-high-speed-rail-france-paris-2024-olympics/#comments Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:56:08 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1167771 Gare du Nord station in Paris, France, after high speed rail network TGV was severely disrupted on following an attack (Image: AAP/EPA/MAST IRHAM)Australia has spent four decades and $150 million studying the feasibility of high-speed rail without building a centimetre of it. Over the same period, France has rolled out 2600km of track serving 200 stations.

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Yes, our planning systems do more harm than good: They’re anti-social, exclusionary and must be reformed https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/26/friday-fight-jonathan-obrien-housing-planning-yimby/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/26/friday-fight-jonathan-obrien-housing-planning-yimby/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:52:58 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1167370 (Image: Zennie/Private Media)In the affirmative corner we have Jonathan O'Brien, lead organiser of YIMBY Melbourne.

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No, the planning system doesn’t do more harm than good — Aussie cities are world leaders https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/26/friday-fight-cameron-murray-housing-planning/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/26/friday-fight-cameron-murray-housing-planning/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:52:27 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1167157 (Image: Zennie/Private Media)Arguing the negative case we have economist Cameron Murray.

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Dutton’s nuclear thought bubble floats in a fantasy world of cheap infrastructure https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/06/20/peter-dutton-nuclear-proposal-cheap-infrastructure-fantasy/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/06/20/peter-dutton-nuclear-proposal-cheap-infrastructure-fantasy/#comments Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:22:13 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1162709 Opposition Leader Peter Dutton (Image: AAP/Morgan Sette)What is the Coalition's track record when it comes to building big infrastructure projects? Truly shocking.

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Australia could capitalise off manufacturing — but we’re behind the eight ball https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/04/22/future-made-in-australia-manufacturing-aukus-submarines/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/04/22/future-made-in-australia-manufacturing-aukus-submarines/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:29:31 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1156206 (Image: Adobe)'Australians have, decade following decade, proven themselves capable of design and innovation to the equal or better of any nation across a multitude of products.'

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Queensland LNP should lay the groundwork for walking away from the Olympics https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/03/18/queensland-olympics-gabba-stadium-steven-miles/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/03/18/queensland-olympics-gabba-stadium-steven-miles/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2024 04:02:34 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1152118 Queensland Premier Steven Miles (Image: AAP/Jono Searle)Sports stadiums are the worst kind of infrastructure. Queensland should walk away from the Olympics while it still can.

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