Rather interesting aint it? Six bidders for Bankstown Airport, all of them property sharks. Now a reasonable man would ponder, why would property sharks be interested in running an airport?
A reasonable man would conclude that they have no interest in running an airport, but a lot of interest in the value of the land said airport sits on.
A meeting will be held shortly at the terminal at Bankstown airport to tell the current aviation tenants that their time is up.
Bob Elle is the man, he's going to create 2000 jobs by shutting down Aviation and building shopping centers, flogging merchandise made in China at bargain prices.
No mention of the thousands of jobs that could be created, real jobs requiring expertise, not just the ability to convince a bogan that what they are buying is actually well made not crap. If only the Aviation Industry could rid itself of all the parasites feeding off it and a rampageous regulator hell bent on its destruction there is so much it could contribute to Australia.
Bob Elles Utopia is to be built on a Floodplain, contaminated with asbestos, possibly radioactive material, live munitions, PCB's and possibly pits full of sewerage, but what the hell, a few bucks here and a few bucks there, and things like EPA approvals, public interest etc. magically disappear and them that could end up with it in their backyard, conveniently ignored.
When general aviation finally collapses under the weight of inspired regulation, and its airports turned into urban utopias, where do the development sharks turn next with their corrupting money, National Parks perhaps?
The really sad thing is, when all this is history, no one will notice a Murky Mandarin sidle out of his public persona to join the ranks at the millionaires club.
And there was I, so naive, believing that corruption didn't exist in Australia.
A reasonable man would conclude that they have no interest in running an airport, but a lot of interest in the value of the land said airport sits on.
A meeting will be held shortly at the terminal at Bankstown airport to tell the current aviation tenants that their time is up.
Bob Elle is the man, he's going to create 2000 jobs by shutting down Aviation and building shopping centers, flogging merchandise made in China at bargain prices.
No mention of the thousands of jobs that could be created, real jobs requiring expertise, not just the ability to convince a bogan that what they are buying is actually well made not crap. If only the Aviation Industry could rid itself of all the parasites feeding off it and a rampageous regulator hell bent on its destruction there is so much it could contribute to Australia.
Bob Elles Utopia is to be built on a Floodplain, contaminated with asbestos, possibly radioactive material, live munitions, PCB's and possibly pits full of sewerage, but what the hell, a few bucks here and a few bucks there, and things like EPA approvals, public interest etc. magically disappear and them that could end up with it in their backyard, conveniently ignored.
When general aviation finally collapses under the weight of inspired regulation, and its airports turned into urban utopias, where do the development sharks turn next with their corrupting money, National Parks perhaps?
The really sad thing is, when all this is history, no one will notice a Murky Mandarin sidle out of his public persona to join the ranks at the millionaires club.
And there was I, so naive, believing that corruption didn't exist in Australia.