We had a bad experience with them a few weeks ago trying to book accommodation in DFW.  During the booking process, we struggled to upload a picture of one of us, and eventually got that right, and the booking was then passed to the Airbnb Frontdesk.  We then received an email saying th...

Well put…

No offence taken, and nation building projects sound good, but this one is just not viable.  If you look at the land mass of Australia with a population of 25m, and compare it to Western Europe which is equivelent in size to Australia.   WE at any given time has 330M++ people there, and...

Sorry mcs_095 - it won't be a 'nation building exercise', it'll be a 'golden triangle building exercise'.  The only way the rest of the nation will be involved is to pay the enourmous bill that would result. 

Agree with tommygun - if it took Sydney 2 years and $3bn to build a light rail line, imagine how much a HSR rail anywhere will cost.  When the  the iron ore mines in WA were opened, they had teams of Kiwi track builders who were the best in the world at the time, and could lay 1 mile of...