Whatever dopey names they tag themselves with,our leaders love big projects, but political danger lurks within the latest appealing vision of Australia’s futureThe Australian Infrastructure design released on Wednesday contains a wide outlook over the next 15 years, or which offers appealing views on how Australia might look in 2031. But it also contains much that will be as politically difficult to implement as was the failed attempt to increase the GST. How quickly things change. Last year in May when Tony Abbott released Infrastructure Australia’s (IA) audit report he began his speech by boasting: “You gain got a prime minister for infrastructure here nowadays,you gain got a deputy prime minister for infrastructure, and you gain got minister Briggs as well.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com