To get trucks off our highways, to reduce accidents, we need an inland rail bridge. Turnbull threw $10 billion at that and wiped his hands, leaving it as a white elephant, with no connections to the three NSW ports because of Mike Baird's manipulations.

Sydney's outer commuters are forced onto those freeways, making mayhem out of any new capacity. The new airport is being given the world's worst transit connection - high budget, long lead time and low effectiveness - eliminating the air freight hub there.

Sydney's congestion is spreading like a wildfire.

Turnbull overrode Paul Fletcher and put some $8 million into CLARA's corporate kitty. There was no way that 1.6 million new homes could possibly be built along a new inland corridor. "Value capture" would have made them so expensive, while sucking the oxygen out of existing towns.

Now PM Morrison allocated $40 million for detailed assessments of five improbable fast rail corridors: Sydney to Wollongong and to Parkes, Melbourne to Albury-Wodonga, Melbourne to Traralgon, and Brisbane to the Gold Coast. The $2 billion line to Geelong is a mirage.

They're all one-offs, not like the web of 19th century rail lines which served many communities. Is there a point? They're not to be commuter services.

That $40 million compares to $100 million being paid to luvvie consultants for a wee job in Sydney's West fiasco. Premier Gladys Berejiklian has lines all over the map, with no transport and housing plan, no business case including operational integration with the Bradfield system, and no budget. Waste = $40 billion.

That seems about right. The city's shiny toys beat the bush's needs yet again.

IN OTHER NEWS:

I think the public generally across all political parties and independents are getting heartily sick and disgusted with the way quite a few of our politicians, irrespective of party, have been acting when Parliament is sitting.

They seem intent at spatting at each other on a personal level rather than getting on with the business of governing this country. They need to see it is a privilege to be elected to work for their electorate as well as making decisions which affect the whole of the country.

If members of a particular party have ideas or points they want to make which are different to those being supported by the party sort them out in the party room and when sitting toe the party line as a football team does, once on the field they play as a team despite any differences they might have had in the back room.

It would be hoped that our elected members conduct their lives appropriately and to be truthful, trustworthy, show decorum at all times, be on the ball 100 per cent each day irrespective of any socialising, respect each other and to that show common sense when dealing with issues so that Australia's best interests are the outcome of any debate.

At no stage should any Government even consider selling national assets. Once sold the country has no control over these assets and they are invariably part of the strategic planning of the infrastructure.

The same applies with 99 year leases; who knows what is going to happen in a 99 year time frame?

While legal clauses can be put in contracts to be able to keep final control in case contracts are broken, which they can be, and the buyer is an overseas trading partner these assets could be used as bargaining tools!

We live in a very lucky country, please govern so that we remain a lucky country.

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