It's sad when a proposal suggesting developing Australian regional infrastructure meets such negativity.   Nobody is suggestion eradicating the option of flying.  The suggestion is to offer an alternative option. Even at 4 hours Melbourne centre <> Sydney centre, with the advanta...

The Chinese have had to reduce the maximum speed on their fast trains from 360 to 300 km/h for safety reasons. Are we going to build a superior train to the Chinese taking into account that cost rises dramatically with speed?  Hopefully Australia would have checks and controls in place to p...

I agree with Paul.  Lots of cynicism which is somewhat the attitude which has caused the delay in the first place. One could constantly repeat "we don't have the population" but with the demographic of the East Coast being our highest concentration of population - especially Sydney - Melbou...