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Of making airports great again

This one sort of snuck in below the ILS so to speak, back in September. Australian Airports Association release.

They have completed a study which indicates that regional airports are underfunded by around $180m per year. That has a flow-down affect on a stifled aviation economy, loss of productivity, strangulation of businesses and increase in safety risks.
Release;

http://www.airports.asn.au/web/dev/uploa...02016).pdf

Article by Herr Bingers;

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business...865ccabae4

So it's no real surprise when you see that;
- The big airports are a monopoly, a rort, a gouge, and been flogged off by government.
- The smaller regionals are being strangled by compliance, old infrastructure, many are Council owned (and local Government couldn't fix a pothole properly let alone manage an airport), and they simply don't have enough coin rolling in through the door.
- While tools like Malcolm 'Goldman Sachs' Turnbull look after big business and award $50b submarine contracts, our airports are turning to shit. Government has priorities you say? Yeah right.

Shit airports. Shit roads. Shit highways. Shit schools. Everything infrastructure wise in this country is becoming antiquated, buggered, use and abused, suffers from piss-poor future planning, and on top of that ends up in a ministerial portfolio in which the people with oversight are normally nothing more than trough dwellers who have sucked and bribed their way into Government, or spent years knifing, plotting and destroying and manipulating others so they can get their own ringside seat at the trough. Neither they nor their minions know SFA about the portfolio, have no technical or industry skill in that particular area of business, and then people wonder why everything has turned to shit!

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