Tag: warren-truss

Another catch-all departmental name

Movement on delayed journey to uniform gauges.

Councils jostle for a piece of the infrastructure pie

Anger over length of legislative delay.

Phosphorescent surfacing on fast track from Feds.

It may not have come as a surprise, but the Williams case MkII decision is exactly the legal nightmare local governments have unsuccessfully been fighting to avoid for years.

The National Commission of Audit’s recommendations to dump dozens of government programs could cut off cash flowing from Canberra to councils if direct funding programs are eliminated.

Any immediate prospect of using fast trains to bypass freeway congestion to connect to people to international and domestic flights has been shunted aside for another big ticket roads build.

NSW councils are getting increasingly nervous over whether regional airlines will have continued guaranteed access to Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport if a second airport is built with fears growing country communities could lose access to services available only in the city.

The potential for the federal government’s planned Melbourne-to-Brisbane Inland Railway to reduce costly damage to local roads has led to praise from councils across Australia.