In the pre-Bannon days, the South Australian Housing Trust played a very important role in the state's economy, reducing the cost of living and making the state more economically competitive. Unlike its current role of providing housing for those who can't afford to buy or even rent commercially, it...

Just Invest Australia $ in Australia! Looks lick the bubble is bursting in the US and the ramifications here in Australia are just starting to be felt. $1billion NAB writes downs, lowest super returns in years and so on. It’s been obvious for several years that the US is living well beyond its me...

As I have said before, the US dropped the ball on electric cars over 10 years ago and are now possibly an unattainable 5 years behind the Japanese and the Europeans in small car and battery electric technology. Ford announced a $9billion quarterly loss and now $16billilion from GM. The fact that wh...

I was responding to you're post which was going on about how we can build things when we need them, and that all we need is things for now, without worrying about the future. Oh, you were responding to a claim that I didn't make. Struth, no wonder there was a misunderstanding! Of course we need to ...

For as little as 2 cents a Km in fuel why would you catch public transport? Parking, road congestion, not having 20 grand to spare... Also, not being able to drive. I don't know about you, but there have been several instances when I've been too tired to drive safely. For the price of a one way bus...

Monotone, I did not mention a freeway once in my post, what you on about :?: You were responding to my post which was about why building a freeway would not be a good idea. Aidan, I think infrastructure of all kinds is important, including transport infrastructure. Adelaide may have transport infra...

Billions of dollars in land acquisitions? A bit of an exaggeration. Maybe, but buying up land on both sides of the railway, much of it from people who don't want to move house, would easily cost hundreds of millions and may well amount to over a billion dollars. I'm not advocating building cross ci...

I think that they should extend the Northern Connector (once its built) from Dry Creek (where a freeway interchange should be located), down along the current Gawler Railway line (by that I mean to have something similar to the Kwinania and Mitchell Freeways in Perth that have the railway line/s in...

So Aidan are you one of those selective (clever) nit pickers, just the sort of non-visionary Australia needs? On the contrary! Just because I understand why your vision can never be put into practice doesn't mean I'm lacking in vision! Well you might as well stick you head in the sand; I don’t th...

In the post oil world In only 40 year there will be no oil. Yes there will. It will probably cost over a thousand dollars per barrel, but there will be some! In 120 years with the anticipated industrialization of China and India uranium will be all gone. Wrong again! There's a lot more uranium out ...

I'm not against deregulation, I'm just trying to get you guys to wake up to the fact that the experiments have been done, and the results dictated what hours supermarkets decide to open more so than the legislation (which is ostensibly wide open these days). But do the supermarkets close as soon as...

The purpose of ballast is to spread the load of the rails/sleepers as well as the rollingstock when it goes over it over poor soil. Dump enough ballast in and you should be fine. The spreading of the load isn't the main problem - it's the seasonal expansion and contraction of the clay that causes t...

It sounds good... except that last time I tried using a computer on a bus, I found it rather awkward. While I'd appreciate free internet, I don't think it will be as convenient as it sounds.

It would be very useful on trains, though!

Ah, English a wonderful language, confusing the masses for over a millennium now, slightly off topic - how does one pronounce this letter: "Z" :2cents: Why don't we make it multiple choice: a) Zed (that's what they said at school) b) Zee (that's what they said on Sesame Street) c) Zzzz (I...

This is getting very interesting. It would be more interesting still if you had a better understanding of the issues. I apologise if this sounds rude - I'm not trying to offend or annoy you, but because you've declared your intention to go into local government, I think it's important that you unde...