The Tokaido Shinkansen in Japan. Philip Laird June 13, 2023 Can the new High Speed Rail Authority deliver after 4 decades of costly studies? Philip Laird, University of Wollongong Some 34 countries have high-speed rail or are about to get it. Yet since it was for proposed for Australia in 1984, no local plan for high-speed rail has got further than the drawing board.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian touring the WestConnex tunnel in Sydney. AAP February 25, 2018 Smart money: a better way for Australia to select big transport infrastructure projects Marion Terrill, Grattan Institute and Hugh Batrouney, Grattan Institute Despite a huge fall in interest rates, the federal government has been using the same rate to value prospective infrastructure projects since 1989.
Mick Tsikas/AAP October 4, 2017 Politics podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Politics Podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree Darren Chester says there is too much hyper-partisanship in Australian politics.