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Liberals push underground CBD train link, non-stop South Rd and O-Bahn extension for new infrastructure panel
Daniel Wills, State Political Editor, The Advertiser
an hour ago

A TOP 10 list of infrastructure projects including an underground CBD train link, non-stop South Rd and O-Bahn extension would be examined by experts under Liberal plans.

The Advertiser can reveal Opposition Leader Steven Marshall’s hit list of projects to be considered by a new infrastructure body if the Liberals win this weekend’s election.

As at the last state election, the Liberals are promising to establish an agency to develop a 20-year state infrastructure plan and prioritise projects based on economic merit.

Called Infrastructure SA, it is modelled on a similar federal department and Mr Marshall says a state agency would end infrastructure pork-barrelling based on political agendas.

In contrast, Labor has announced a $2 billion package it says will be delivered if it wins on Saturday including elimination of seven level crossings, a new Spencer Gulf port and tram lines to Norwood and through North Adelaide.

The Liberal policy does not commit them to delivering particular projects, but identifies 10 for close scrutiny.

They include completion of a traffic-light free South Rd from Gawler to Port Noarlunga, sealing the Strzelecki Track in SA’s north and eliminating level crossings in Adelaide.

Also on the list is an Eyre Peninsula port, city trams, taking the O-Bahn to Golden Grove and an underground rail link to connect north and south passenger trains.

The Liberals would also consider finishing the Gawler train electrification.

The Liberals’ GlobeLink plan for a new freight airport, freeway and relocation of heavy train lines was announced with fanfare last year and has been put on Infrastructure SA’s to-do list.

Mr Marshall also wants to examine possible light rail, commercial, retail, residential and recreational developments near Port Adelaide to support the $90 billion shipbuilding program at Osborne.

“Infrastructure is central to everything a good government does,” Mr Marshall said.

“We must make the most of the expertise we have, not only in government but in the wider community, to guide and implement our infrastructure planning.

“We have seen what happens when plans are short-sighted, ill-conceived, badly implemented and driven by short-term political motives rather than what is best for all of us now and into the future.”

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Stephen Mullighan has dismissed Infrastructure SA as just “another Liberal Party committee” which would bring progress to a “screeching halt”.

POLICY POLICE
What? Liberals reveal top 10 infrastructure projects they would consider building in government.

How? A new body, Infrastructure SA, would be made up of experts to deliver a long-term plan and rank projects based on economic bang for buck.

Pub test? The Liberals get to put a lot of flashy things on the agenda without promising to follow through on any. Makes sense to get them properly checked, but many people want certainty.

Norman wrote:

Liberals push underground CBD train link, non-stop South Rd and O-Bahn extension for new infrastructure panel
Daniel Wills, State Political Editor, The Advertiser
an hour ago

A TOP 10 list of infrastructure projects including an underground CBD train link, non-stop South Rd and O-Bahn extension would be examined by experts under Liberal plans.

The Advertiser can reveal Opposition Leader Steven Marshall’s hit list of projects to be considered by a new infrastructure body if the Liberals win this weekend’s election.

As at the last state election, the Liberals are promising to establish an agency to develop a 20-year state infrastructure plan and prioritise projects based on economic merit.

Called Infrastructure SA, it is modelled on a similar federal department and Mr Marshall says a state agency would end infrastructure pork-barrelling based on political agendas.

In contrast, Labor has announced a $2 billion package it says will be delivered if it wins on Saturday including elimination of seven level crossings, a new Spencer Gulf port and tram lines to Norwood and through North Adelaide.

The Liberal policy does not commit them to delivering particular projects, but identifies 10 for close scrutiny.

They include completion of a traffic-light free South Rd from Gawler to Port Noarlunga, sealing the Strzelecki Track in SA’s north and eliminating level crossings in Adelaide.

Also on the list is an Eyre Peninsula port, city trams, taking the O-Bahn to Golden Grove and an underground rail link to connect north and south passenger trains.

The Liberals would also consider finishing the Gawler train electrification.

The Liberals’ GlobeLink plan for a new freight airport, freeway and relocation of heavy train lines was announced with fanfare last year and has been put on Infrastructure SA’s to-do list.

Mr Marshall also wants to examine possible light rail, commercial, retail, residential and recreational developments near Port Adelaide to support the $90 billion shipbuilding program at Osborne.

“Infrastructure is central to everything a good government does,” Mr Marshall said.

“We must make the most of the expertise we have, not only in government but in the wider community, to guide and implement our infrastructure planning.

“We have seen what happens when plans are short-sighted, ill-conceived, badly implemented and driven by short-term political motives rather than what is best for all of us now and into the future.”

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Stephen Mullighan has dismissed Infrastructure SA as just “another Liberal Party committee” which would bring progress to a “screeching halt”.

POLICY POLICE
What? Liberals reveal top 10 infrastructure projects they would consider building in government.

How? A new body, Infrastructure SA, would be made up of experts to deliver a long-term plan and rank projects based on economic bang for buck.

Pub test? The Liberals get to put a lot of flashy things on the agenda without promising to follow through on any. Makes sense to get them properly checked, but many people want certainty.

Sure, an infrastructure assessment panel does sound good, but given that nothing will be committed to for years while the panel is created and assessments are being done, they should at least release a few projects they can get started almost immediately.

rev wrote:

Waewick wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 11, 2018 5:03 pm

Here comes the dodgy tactics. A Labor MP putting out Blue plaques with no ALP badge on it.

Seriously this government has no shame.

You're capable of reading? The average literacy rate in Australia is apparently 99%...
Regardless of colours, people should be able to read Leon Bignell on that poster, and determine that it is a Labor election poster.
If they cant, then perhaps they shouldn't vote.

“They want to take it down to 21 weeks, and it is already 20 weeks,” he said.

Waewick wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 11, 2018 12:50 pm

rubberman wrote:

rev wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 09, 2018 7:15 pm

I was opposed to the car industry shutting, if you recall.
I’m also against increasing the overseas migration rate to Australia in general let alone South Australia. For a variety of reasons..but...

People need jobs to migrate to.
After WW2, south east European migration that occurred to Australia, did so because there was industry that needed workers, and Australia didn’t have the population.

What exactly are we bringing people over to today? Toilet cleaners and taxi drivers?


And as Waewick says I apparently deny that there’s jobs Aussies won’t do. What I deny is the generalisation about locals on that.
There’s people who are lazy and won’t work even if you arranged for them to be showered dressed and fed and then taken to and from work every day.
Then there’s the hundreds of thousands who are underemployed or unemployed, who if they were able to get a foot in the door, would jump at the opportunity.

There’s plenty of employers who keep advertising the same job over and over for months on end. Considering how many people we have unemployed or underemployed do you think they haven’t found someone suitable? Or is it a case of they are being picky?

Then there is the factor that foreigners will get an employer a wage subsidy. An employer won’t get a subsidy for a locals wages. Our own government is making us unemployable.

Why are they filling the nursing ranks with foreigners?


They aren’t doing ANYTHING to create jobs for the masses that need jobs, it’s all smoke and mirrors and bullshit. Instead they are bringing in foriengers who are alien to our western way of life. They are then subsidising their wages, which we pay for.


As for Holden, getting back to the local stuff, GM was closing it regardless of who was in power. Part of their global strategy. Same with Toyota. Apparently it’s cheaper to make cars overseas but we are still being slugged the same if not more for the imports. Toyota’s Camry for example is around 5k more for the base model and the top end model around 10k more then the locally produced car.

Given the significance to the states economy and the socioeconomic fabric of the northern suburbs and knock on effect to the rest of the city, the state government should have compulsorily acquired the site. There was an Australian hybrid vehicle developer that wanted to move in. Those thousands of jobs could have been transferred over. At least some of them anyway.

The whole space industry thing. That’s great, if it happens.
But that doesn’t address the issue of the majority who are unemployed or underemployed, because they don’t have the qualifications for those types of jobs. All this high tech advanced manufacturing stuff is good, but whose qualified?

They spent all that money on the mining training Center at Regency TAFE, but does anyone know how hard it is to actually get a job in mining? It’s not what you know but also who you know. So tax payers money spent to benefit who? Those with connections in the industry? Again a big nothing for the majority of those who need jobs in this state.

Nothing real for the majority of people who need jobs or full time employment is being done. Smoke mirrors bullshit and staged press conferences.

The alternative choices for government aren’t offering anything either. So who ever wins this months election, at the next election we will be talking about the same things.

That's my point in a nutshell. That the supposed growth interstate that apparently makes SA into a backwater is based on high immigration, with all the problems you have outlined. So, if you take out the immigration at these high levels, you eliminate those problems you describe, but also, suddenly the GDP figures for those other states fall right back down, and SA looks much better.

For that article to have been honest, it should have addressed the issues you raised and adjusted the GDP figures to show the real picture.

But the immigration happened, taking it out trys to remove the reality.

How many South Australians have left the state in the last 20 years? Why is that?

Unfortunately we are an economic backwater.

FOSTER CARE

Jay Weatherill: You (carers) are doing a wonderful thing for those children and you’re saving the rest of us a whole lot of money.

Steven Marshall: We will be different and we will be better. We will extend carer payments from age 18 to 21.

Nick Xenophon: The fact that so many children are in accom-modation in motels ... indicates the system needs reform.

UTILITIES

Steven Marshall: We’re going to restore the Emergency Services Levy remission. We want to cap council rates. If we form government we’ll have an immediate water price inquiry.

Nick Xenophon: (SA Water) has become a cash cow – we need to wind that back. Emergency Services, there needs to be some remission.

Jay Weatherill: There will be big reductions (in power prices) when we bring our solar thermal plant on in Port Augusta ... $150 each year over the next two years. And there’s the 30 per cent that’s going to come off (prices) with our virtual (solar) power station.

MISTAKES

Jay Weatherill: We’ve seen some ordinary things happen in child protection and aged care ... We have to have a super level of vigilance, we have to have ministers that are interrogating every level of their agency.

Steven Marshall: We haven’t been in government for 16 years.

Nick Xenophon: I make mistakes every day. I put up a Bill on penalty rates for small businesses – that was a complete stuff-up ... I’ve voted differently since.

timtam20292 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:31 am

We are not a backwater.

noun
noun: backwater; plural noun: backwaters

a part of a river not reached by the current, where the water is stagnant.
"the eels inhabit backwaters"

an isolated or peaceful place.
"nothing spoils the tranquillity of this quiet backwater"

a place or situation in which no development or progress is taking place.
"the country remained an economic backwater"

timtam20292 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 15, 2018 11:51 am

Rubbish.

Goodsy wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 15, 2018 11:42 am

timtam20292 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:31 am

We are not a backwater.

noun
noun: backwater; plural noun: backwaters

a part of a river not reached by the current, where the water is stagnant.
"the eels inhabit backwaters"

an isolated or peaceful place.
"nothing spoils the tranquillity of this quiet backwater"

a place or situation in which no development or progress is taking place.
"the country remained an economic backwater"

metaphorically, we hit all 3