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Australia Archive
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Lucky country dodged $2 a litre bullet – for now
Posted on December 15, 2013 | No CommentsAlan Kohler http://www.alankohler.com.au/ showed this AUD/USD exchange rate graph on the 7 pm news on ABC TV on Friday the 13th 2013, displaying a variance between 50c and 1 dollar. […] -
Sydney motorists pay 22 % more tolls for motorway widening
Posted on October 21, 2013 | No CommentsFor a modest traffic increase of 3% motorists in Sydney’s North West pay 22% more tolls after the M2 was widened from 2 lanes to 3 lanes and additional ramps […] -
Half of Sydney’s direct international flights dropped by 5 % since July 2008 (part 2)
Posted on September 22, 2013 | No CommentsBizarre election stunt by an Australian politician to lobby for a 2nd Sydney airport, far from his own electorate in Queensland. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/bob-katter-backs-badgery8217s-creek-airport-in-western-sydney/story-fni0cx12-1226698573961 Bob Katter arriving by helicopter in Badgerys Creek, […] -
Melbourne’s East West Link tunnel proposal has low benefit cost ratio and high oil price risk
Posted on September 5, 2013 | No CommentsAccording to the State government of Victoria’s “short form business case” a proposed road tunnel in Melbourne has only a benefit cost ratio of 1.4, a number which is classified […] -
Australian oil and fuel dependency on the Middle East is 37 %
Posted on June 24, 2013 | No CommentsAustralian crude oil imports Imports from South East Asian neighbours (black line) peaked in 2007. Since then, Australian refineries did a good job to import crude from far-away places including […] -
Brisbane Airport Link: at the end of the road tunnel investor money flies away (part 2)
Posted on February 20, 2013 | No CommentsOnly 2 weeks after NSW infrastructure boss Nick Greiner could not answer the question how toll-way debt in Sydney can be paid back, the answer comes from another Australian capital […] -
No debt repayment plan for Sydney’s toll-ways
Posted on February 12, 2013 | No CommentsAt a recent ITLS seminar, Infrastructure NSW’s chairman Nick Greiner could not show calculations how Sydney’s existing toll-way debt, not to mention future debt from proposed new toll-ways, will ever […] -
Report Card 2012: it was a very good year – for peak oil denial
Posted on January 16, 2013 | No CommentsContents: 1 Australian government failed to update its internal peak oil report 2 NSW government can’t deal with peak oil 3 Media dropped ball on peak oil and impact of […] -
Wanton destruction of bus ramp in Sydney continues
Posted on December 20, 2012 | No CommentsDemolition work on the M2, to make way for a 3rd car lane 9/12/2012 While the Middle East is falling apart, with yet unknown consequences for oil supplies, only 3 […] -
Australian Infrastructure bosses want more traffic on motorways
Posted on November 7, 2012 | No CommentsIn April 2009, in an energy white paper workshop in Sydney’s Crowne Plaza the participants were told not to debate peak oil but agree on an objective “Away from oil”. […]