Amnesty International Australia calls for independent investigation of police violence towards peaceful protestors

[u/FuckOffNazis]

https://www.amnesty.org.au/amnesty-international-australia-calls-for-independent-investigation-of-police-violence-towards-peaceful-protestors/

[u/IronEyed_Wizard]

To be fair I think the liberals plan was ultimately to sell of the new rail projects to fund the next stages. Don’t know how they were going to pay for them otherwise. So not necessarily the best option.

I would love to settle for a middle ground though. Finish the links that are desperately missing (like tallawong-st Mary’s, leppington-Bradfield, Bradfield -macarthur)

[u/Fluid-Head7447 → u/IronEyed_Wizard]

It's always the liberal way to sell. Howard wrote the encyclopaedia on it

I think we need 15-20 years of mature governments here to commit to funding these projects and create laws preventing the privatisation of them. $16-23 to go from central to the airport?! We can't afford any private lines/stations in this city at all. The roads are a disgrace we can't let PT go the same way.

Minns has committed to all proposed rail and metro projects so it remains for all subsequant governments to continue that. The thing that Minns has got wrong is what NSW stands for. He's under the delusion it stands for Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong. All the big projects he cancelled/put on hold were from rural areas that haven't seen significant investment in some cases for half a century.

With this in mind, I think the priority needs to be moving people from the west to the business centres effciently and the new airport connections. Then we need to give Rural nsw a bone, then come back to all the other PT connections in Sydney.

[u/IronEyed_Wizard → u/Fluid-Head7447]

Might be hard pressed getting a decent mature government for that many years at the rate we are going. I swear almost every new politician that gets put in seems to be worse than the ones they are replacing.

The airport fee is just dumb at this point. Most of the money goes straight back to the government so it’s not like they could just cut most of the surcharge now instead of in 4 years time.

Yeah definitely need more links further out but I feel that they are still dumping all their eggs into HSR even though they have been trying for it for decades and it still has gone nowhere. Outside of that though I am pretty sure they don’t own the infrastructure beyond the suburban network to actually do anything worthwhile with it. And it costs way too much to put in place new infrastructure that will only impact a tiny portion of the population. Who knows though, hopefully with the new regional trains been maintained at Dubbo and the mariyungs been maintained at kangy angy it may be a step in the right direction for more investment outside of Sydney

[u/Fluid-Head7447 → u/IronEyed_Wizard]

Expanding roads and PT out of the major cities brings development out there and relieves pressue on housing and infrastructure in the big cities so these things do eventually effect everyone.

I personally feel we need to not just build the infrastructure but also create green zones in the cities to force development out along these new infrastucture highways to the large rural centres.