Australian rail project being held up by ‘political infighting’ and ‘poor management’
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2024
- Sky News host Peta Credlin says Australia’s Inland Rail project is looking like it “might never be completed”.
Ms Credlin said it is being held up by “political infighting, poor management” and “environmental approvals”.
“Originally slated to be completed by 2027 at a cost of just over $9 billion - it’s now blown out to beyond $31.4 billion,” she said.
“No guarantees that the line will ever actually cross from New South Wales into Queensland."
Ms Credlin was joined by Shadow Veterans Minister Barnaby Joyce to discuss Australia’s Inland Rail project.
So we can,t damage some scrub for rail but it,s ok to destroy pristine bush for turbines. These people hate Australia.
Don't you know, this rail project would anger the unseen but is real, platypus men of yarrawayahee land?
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@@Sylmarys24dreaming 😂😂😂
Smells of corruption
Spot on.
There are no environmental issues with tearing up virgin forest and flattening hilltops for useless wind turbines
Well that extra 22 billion is going into someones back pocket, not on the project.
Lots of waterfront properties and fast cars.
lots of political.pockets filling up the corruption gets thicker and stunkier
Adding a bus lane to the Gympie Road in Brisbane has taken 4 years and we have 900 metres so far. Nothing surprises me. Sometimes the busiest people on these projects are the traffic controllers.
Young girls with make-up and big nails and tight hi vis tops seem to be getting this job a lot I noticed..standing around looking pretty doing sweet fa
Cnr Saunders Rd and Pitt Town Road NSW 9 months they worked on it, we thought they were building a roundabout no it was just some drains
A train line to nowhere. Thats Labor all over.
As an ex Canadian living in Australia for many years i am Always amazed at our shocking inability in Australia to build infrastructure.
They built great things 50 to 100 years ago with little population
We can, we have the knowhow and the resources, we just....don't?....because for the last 50 years we'd rather give money for these projects to bringing in future criminals and spending on useless referendums.
The problem is the politicians are too busy squabbling about who gets the biggest kickbacks , the senior bureaucrats squabble about who should be in charge and only interested in building their kingdoms by building layers of management. Thus they then can get bigger budgets and put more managers on staff.
The Greens are more interested in turning Australia into another failed Socialist State by approving environmentally unfriendly, unsustainable , expensive and corrupt projects like wind farms.
Anything that makes Australia a wealthy and independent country is something they hate
Say what you want about Barnaby, but he's right.
Cant these lazy people get anything right. In the real world they would be sacked.
So true.
It is graft not the person, corruption via temptation. Very common.
@@ralphhillier676 it's Labor, so it's failure.
Beazley scratched out the NBN on a beer coaster, they costed it at $37 billion. By the time construction started it was going to cost over $300 billion. Luckily, Labor got dumped. Turnbull knew wireless internet was coming, he put in place a cheap, workable system that didn't break the country.
Everything the Left has ever touched anywhere and everywhere in the world has turned to shit.
170 years of worldwide Left failure, their destruction of 30 countries and killing of 200 million people without EVER advancing humanity, Leftstupids still haven't worked it out.
This just shows how out of touch our politicians are. How big is Australia it needs a freight line.
I live in an area where my neighbour was forced to sell his 1 year old 5 bedroom home on 100 acres for this project. That was about 5 years ago. An absolute disgrace
I’ve never heard anyone complain about having to sell a house that would have had a major railway built right next to it. Small sacrifice pack up and go buy somewhere nicer for the greater good. 😎👊👍🇦🇺
@@galacticnemesis366 cool story dopey
Obviously what Australia needs is a lot more bureaucrats and public servants
Wait a sec- we’ll do a study of that.
no we need: Javier Milei
Obviously said tongue in cheek😅
union controlled truck lobby with a labor backing have devastated Australian rail efforts for as long as I have been here 54 years in WA most of the time. Cost for rail lines has risen via greed as well.
I have seen the rip up of country rail lines. To back this up they build on the pathways so one can never use that track again, Roads over farm land. Gov: excreting in there own nest actually.
One 40 ton truck burning fuel for a 30 ton load, from eastern states, one train =40 ton per car x 50 at minimum, plus passengers, ratio of fuel is obvious per tonnage cost
Trucks can then transfer goods to customer. More to infrastructure than this, but no room to write, will if required.
Interesting reading. What else would you say about this?
WA seems to get projects done reasonably well compared to the east coast
Meanwhile, we will be spending $400 billion on nuclear attack submarines we don't need. For that sort of money, we could have high-speed rail connecting all major cities, with plenty of spare cash for other infrastructure projects.
Damm for that money it could be built to Perth 10 times 😅
Don't forget all the $$ wasted on covid, Ukraine and Humass.
I think the subs are required but we could divert the same amount of money away from the aboriginal industry and use that for major rail. 😎👊👍🇦🇺
@@galacticnemesis366 You mean the subs are required to protect us from our biggest trading partner and the most important source of our prosperity of the last decades? (But I do agree with you regarding the aboriginal industry.)
Fuck those $400 Billion nuclear attack submarines. Fuck them
9 billion to 31 billion
When the project gets to 1000% blowout like Snowy 2.0 then we'll know it's on track.
@@clydesimpson1462 😳😂🤣
The Gothard Base Tunnel (longest and deepest in the world) cost half the price and was completed sooner.
Don't forget most of the right of way for inland rail already exists - about half currently existing railway lines and half abandoned ones. So there is no great need for land purchasing. While clearances do have to be increased to accommodate double stacked container trains, there are no great realignments or easements to that existing ROW and no sophisticated engineering challenges posed on any of the new sections built. The construction is entirely outside of any metropolitan or suburban area and the terminals at either end well away from both the ports and areas of industrial activity. Another major tragedy was not routing the line through Shepparton and Tocumwal and it's ludicrous to argue now that this was done to reduce costs.
Apart from the end terminals, there are few plans to construct intermodal terminals and/or sidings at points along the way. And advantages to those communities along the line will be minimal at best. Where new and majorly upgraded ROW is provided, those communities are at heightened risk of flooding for one thing.
The body charged with delivering the project, the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC), is possibly the most incompetent federal agency - and that's saying something, considering the cut-throat competition it's up against for that honour.
The initial $10 billion figure was far in-excess of what it should have cost to reconstruct standard gauge rail line across the existing ROW from Brisbane to Melbourne along a route that follows the Newell Hwy. Granted they'd be a need for some realignment, bridge and culvert strengthening, etc. Whilst desirable, it could be argued there is no need for double stacking and this would certainly have kept costs down.
Just a fraction of the $20 billion cost blow out would go a long way to fixing Australia's long neglected and and abandoned regional freight rail network and drive a significant shift from road back to rail. This would be a true boon to regional economies and national productivity overall. This wasted opportunity cost is possibly the most egregious element of this whole project.
The projected transit times over inland rail are no better than the existing intercity corridors (Melbourne to Sydney and North Coast). A fraction of the project cost cost could have been spent here instead to further reduce transit times on these lines, separate freight traffic from the Sydney suburban rail and Central Coast networks and greatly speed up and increase the number of passenger trains operating between Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Intercity passenger trains between Sydney and Canberra could also benefit here, enabling an attractive, competitive, viable and low carbon alternative to air travel between these two cities.
It is likely that inland rail serves as a front operation to transfer vast sums of public funding into shadey private pockets. Both major parties are accountable here and one is not better or worse than the other - they and the politicians and operatives within them stink equally as bad. It's even more likely that inland rail will come to serve as the byword for all of the corruption and incompetence of the Australian political class.
Tru dat!
We have a major problem greedy people
Greedy corporations.
Inland rail was doomed from the start when they decided to use old lines from Melbourne to Illabo. Should have been routed through Neranderra,Tocumwal and Shepparton. Then after the "Review" it has been truncated from the cities to end at Beveridge in Melbourne and somewhere well short of Brisbane. Typical of Labor to come up with half assed solutions.
The problems of the Inland Rail can be summed up very easily
ARTC is the overall body running the construction of the project, you wouldn't give this lot the chance to build an outhouse
The Rail section NSW border to Brisbane has suffered a massive cost blowout after a 2023 independent review which has resulted in a cost bun fight between the Federal Government and Qld.Premier Steven Miles who is adamant the track must be completed into Queensland as promised.
This project if not cancelled will never be completed before the 2030s.
Sounds like taxpayers have been milked good. Great mgmt if getting cash was the aim.
The kleptocracts are at it again 😒 I would love to know how many Australian owned and operated businesses have construction contracts on this project? And how much of this money is staying in our country ? We all know that those questions will be "taken on notice" and never answered. Every infrastructure project in my 4 decades of scrutiny has been sabotaged by our pathic Grubernment
Nothing from any of Australian politician project come within budget. Not the first and won’t be the last… typical but Australian always forgive and still support for these incompetent politicians
Australia has a poor track (excuse the pun) record when it comes to large rail projects, poor planning by non rail industry "advisers" , cost blow outs and lack of sound direction. Wasting taxpayers money on a grand scale, what a joke it is. I will be dead and buried by the time the first double stacked express freight train runs from Melbourne through to Brisbane. 🤨🤔
Now let’s see. The only way to get essential foodstuffs and other critical supplies from the eastern states to WA is via a single railway track and a single road which gets cut off by a bit of rain…rrrriiiiiggggghhhhhhttttt.that makes sense. Take a visit to Coles and Woolies in WA and see the empty shelves. This is pathetic. Maybe get the Chinese to look at building the same high speed rail network they built in China - 30000+ kms of it. I am not being serious but this is ridiculous…
This happens with every construction in Australia, name ONE that came in on budget, or even one that came in under budget.
The problem is that the powers that be didn't make the bush fires bad enough the clear the rail corridor sufficiently to keep the cost down.
Yes agree totally.. not enough lives destroyed or bankrupted yet for Great Replacement agenda's.. I remember Gillard years ago saying that Australians have to get use to lower standards of living. I don't care what party they are from the the arses in the seats all have the same democide and replacement agenda. If they weren't constantly in our pockets we could afford to have our own children instead of importing more scab labour and pushing our people into the live street homeless
Come on mate, its not just the Labour party. You guys were in power for many years, and not one railway sleeper was laid, so both parties are guilty of brushing projects aside!
Politicians at there best. Should be sacked for miss management.
31 billion so far for a single rail way ... WTF !!! and we can't even get help to grow the Australian shipping fleet from 10 Aussie flagged ships and half of them are government chartered ships ..We in Australia are totally reliant on flags of convenience foriegn ships and foreign crew to deliver fuel , minerals and all bulk commodity to us and the have even taken over the Coast to coast work within our own waters. Allowed by our government for minimal charge for a permit. It's just disgraceful and hypocritical. The 31 billion has just gone overseas to the foreign own companies like John Hollands
This was supposed to happen 20yrs ago ,if not more. I remember them talking about it in the 1980’s
Why Not let China rail companies do it? China build 3 to 5 thousand kms new railway every year. It is on time and on budget every time.
China fast train can travel 300-350 kms per hour. At this speed , coin can still stand up on its edge for long time as train run very smooth. China slow train run at 160-200 kms per hour. At this speed, China slow train is still much faster than other countries' normal train which run at 60-90km per hour.
No, we are not allowed to do that. The US is saying that China is our enemy.
They are a massive economic black hole in china, not to mention extremely unsafe
It also falls apart and is piss poor quality 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@MortucusInvictus if their equipment and parts are so bad how they ho in Australia gad plants.
A agriculture manufacturing company brought in Chinese gear boxes but before using they compared them to Australian made ones. Guest which failed?.
The Australian made failed.
Dorry all thumbs tonight.
APLNG use a lot of Chinese parts and they don't fail qi.
You get what you pay for.
A friend of mine works for local government. They built a park access track of less than 1k. It took 18 months. In 18 months I was involved in the design, construction, fitout, leasing and commissioning of a $123m shopping centre. So the track built by government took as long as a shopping centre built by private enterprise, with no political finagling. And thus, a $30b railway to nowhere! We are governed by our enemies!
First rule of mega projects - add 150% to whatever the consultant said.
You forgot to add, plus 5 years before they even start!!! Politics give prostitution a bad name!!
Go Barnaby
Who paid off who and who’s pocket it’s gone into
None of these rail projects are worth it in the long run, they always cost multiple time more as there is no contract penalties for not making planned time frames...
What else is new
Nothing ever comes in under " budget "
Australian infrastructure genius. Australia is also tops in manufacturing.
Australia has been in decline for decades
Political infighting and poor management is the government logo
I am from the Government I am here to complicate and disrupt and increase costs!!
I think the idead is to divert to Boggabilla its a gold mine..plenty of companies and workers..
Oil and gas exploration has been done, even a small field could boost a city and industrial sector for decades but we only tap the areas closest to the customers not our own infrastructure
About right!
Just build it
No trains for Australia......not enough money for governments!
You are misinformed, it is not the initial cost which was feasibility and surveying and some ground work. You have people like Barnaby wanting to go elsewhere while they are in the area. All good for future of inland rail. But any and all new proposals come at great cost. as Barnaby knows but does want to admit while on sky news.. Notice how quick how the subject changes.
This was a coalition fk up the whole way along.
In essence "We love the useless and endless projects." -Govts
It's been more than 30 years since the two bus crashes near Kempsey which prompted the government to build a dual carriageway from around Gosford to QLD and it's still not finished. I live near one of the two remaining missing links. I have no idea what the estimated cost of the project was 30 years ago but just the fact that it's taken so long would've increased it by 100 times. The same will be true of this railway.
Barnaby - You make a lot of sense! It is time Australia moves its bum and grows up! We should have at least 5 more Darwins scattered over the North and West otherwise we are going to overrun our Tax income base. The Govt. needs to finance itself by a larger tax base and that can only come from a larger population! If nothing else, we should at least start the conversation!!
Tell that to the thousands that are camping out in tents and cars. Immigration is far too excessive. Driving our country into an abyss of poverty. 😎👊👍🇦🇺
Surely that project cost blow out means the project is no longer cost effective! It would have been better a road for everyone to use. Was the railway line electrified?
your still going to need trucks, including road trains to move containers as well as grain etc to and from different locations along the way, the containers and grain want get there them selves,, so despite having an inland rail you will still see the trucks such as road trains etc on our rural roads.....
JESUS CHRIST. You talk about space. There's more space between bloody Albo and Blackouts ears than the entirety of the whole of the Australian Outback.
As a West Aussie, I hear $13 Billion wasted on imaginary water licence buy backs in the Murray Darling area, $5 billion plus on Snowy 2.0 with massive cost blow outs, billions to prop up SA ship building with the Submarines and possibly $30 billion for an East coast freight rail. About half of all Australia's export revenue is generated in WA, how about the FEDs wasting some of WA's money in WA, that would be nice.
In summer our trains travel at less than twenty kilometres an hour in alot of places.
the rail for frieght from east to west (Perth) seems badly managed with de-railings all the time and flooding.
there was never a full route planned and no depots at either end mentioned ,
You only had to look at the staffing the contractors had to know they were using OTM (other people's money), also governments shouldn't be allowed to interfere with a project once it has been approved and started (Inland Rail project has already invested heavily which means all that money is lost.) There should be no managers at local, state, or federal that haven't proved themselves in the private sector, I think we are all sick of no accountability.
Such big projects are far beyond what Australians can come to terms with. It’s all too big a thing. My opinion.
Can't build railway line but can reconfigure the country's electricity system and reduce our power bills - must be the same people in charge of the COVID response.
would be nice if this line had the facilities for passenger use as well so we could have a direct Brisbane-Melbourne passenger route. People might actually use it instead of flying instead of the current sh*tshow that is the XPT from Brisbane to Sydney and then the train from Sydney to Melbourne, neither of which are ever on time because they are on a 100+ year old alignment with slow freight services causing delays
When or if it is finally finished they’ll running diesel trains so it won’t be environmentally friendly so they have got no chance of making it work
this is where these idiots on climate change dont think build the railway use diesel at least it would be running but if they insist on electric how much more for the cables to be installed from melbourne to brisbane i as a truck driver used to pick up containers with 6 cars from melbourne before the factory closed down the railway was chock a blok then ,people dont realise there has to be certain times between trains
Called an economy of scale. A few massive diesel generators on a few trains degrade the environment a lot less than thousands of truck engines. Not to mention the sheer upkeep needed for an asphalt road.
Taking road trains off the road......great idea except for the fact that $0.70 cents a kilometre is earned through fuel tax, state taxes and gst. Trucks will never be replaced by rail. It's too much of a money making scheme to put on rail.
Minerals in the ground 2 mine, God given natural beauty. That's where Australians miracle begins and ends. Australia is a high cost economy, hamstrung by state and federal politics. From different gauge rail lines between the states, to non standardises licencing. Its all a huge mess. Melbourne can't even build a rail connection from city to airport.
Grubbermint boondoggle.
As NORMAL grate idea,, stuffed up by GOVERNMENT,
I AM in transport,,
I been asking for 10 years, make it so a B dub can drive on , one track .mined, containers are only good for export
When they are putting boom gates and redoing level crossings on dirt roads that hardly gets used of course itll blow out... or ordering 100t of road base then using it and going shit we need more and ordering another 200t..
Well piss poor planning promotes piss poor performance .You can blame consultants as most of the time they go into an area they have no knowledge about and are baffled . And the worst thing Albo still pays them even though they are stumped. letting the country down a little more everyday
How the hell can it go from 9b to 31b
Look at the ndis, welcome to Australia.
Great idea and would have numerous economic benefits. But your forgetting the trucking union would be working against rail.
Australia was "born" with Moon in Virgo and struggles to perceive the big picture. Against all the independent science we all thought Covid-19 would kill us all, now somehow the weather.
if you have one railway from melb to brisben it would be cheap people would make more money and profit in there pockets but what goverment wants is having 3 stop locations so they can extrect more money from your pockets that key in greedy Australia gov
Another demonstration of why nuclear could never be built by Australian companies.
It is another great project which is being ruined.
P P P gone wrong at the taxpayers expense
As long as we win at sport nothing else matters.
I as a interstate driver and also one that grown up west of the ranges. Unfortunately inland rail has been doomed to fail from the start. Road freight is getting more efficient by the year unfortunately roads arnt keeping up but even if inland rail gets up won’t take trucks off the road it will just concentrate them in areas that trying to push them out. And a rail line that won’t end at Brisbane port well sorry but just another white elephant that has been a good idea spoilt by politics
Barnaby wants a train line through his land.
Barney for PM
so right and true 🤣👍👍
🤣 EV all that money goes up in smoke definitely when they catch on fire fireman's can't put them out so it a total loss to your car and truck they're going to go in a big container off water and fire retardant just to put them out but there is no guarantees and it might start up again and the red 🚨⚠ batteries are lethal to the environment and people breathe in ☠ very toxic 🚨⚠☣☢contents 📢>>> must not assume the smoke ⚠must receive medical help mentally if assume ⚠🚨🚨🚨
the batteries contain lethal minerals could be bad for people
Trucks can easily use rail lines .a little original thought goes a long way.
Labour old saying not worth a dipper of goat dung
Sorry but this was not ever a good project...
Drunken dream on both sides, But on both sides we prefer to send our money overseas.
You should ask Elon again to see if his tunnel boring machine can do this instead.
Barnaby isnt a good salesman
Great idea but barnaby is so annoying
Barney banana
Barnaby sober for once? The Libs were in power for years, what happened then? Crudlin the non journalist agreeing with every word he utters, just a softball interview, staunch Lib to Coalition partner.
Barnaby was in charge of the $13 billion dollar Murray Darling water buy backs. He handed money out to big business that just throw unmetered pumps into the rivers and suck out what ever they like while accepting millions for returning their water licenses, a complete rort and BJ knows it. This did not fix the Murray Darling, the huge amount of rainfall in the last year or 2 has, until the next drought.
The uniparty working against Australia.
poor planning being out by 22 billion is not planning
You can't put this trainline through the Pilliga scrub. That's where the Yowie lives....🙃
New rules are needed, politicians must not bellowed to spend taxpayer money. That waste is just untenable.