why not rewrite the consistution? sure, n one will ever vote rom it since we're all far too conservitive, but we might as well become a republic, or even and islamic state. it's not going to happen; i will to remove most froms of socialism in this nation; see what it's doing to aboriginal communities, or the unemployed in the houseing commission estates.
The reason i preposed a new city is that 24% of Sydney's population lives in a Housing Commission Estate(2006 census) with simmilar rates in other cities, and regional centres. also the act that unemployment is around 12% (if you work 1-5 hour a week your not employed and contibuting every day of the week 8 - 5; the governemt says 4% just to look good)
also a need port is required, and a high speed transportion system. if you can travel 320km/h by train from Paris to Antwerp, why can't we do it from Sydney to Newcastle, Sydney to Melbourne, Brisbaine, or a 10 hour trip to Perth non stop.
if the pubic, or the private sector ran trips from WA to NSW, or VIC to NSW, QLD to NSW, Sydney Airport might not be battling with the world's 3rd most traveled routes, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne.
what has the Governemt done to improve the economy through infastructure? nothing! If Mr Rudd could develop a interstate transportional system, approve uranium mining and power plants, improove all major capital's mass transit systems, and pleadge around $3 billion to Hydrogen technology for fuel cells and other hydrogen based technological adventage and the world's fastest, and cheapest broadband connection he would have all the seats in government. where can he get the money, the new company "the commonwealth mining, exploration, development and infastructural corporation" if Rudd exploits the mining boom, and builds infastructure whilst fining a hydrogen based solution to the peak oil crisis.

Interesting that you claim to want to do away with socialism and yet tout the high speed transport network of two socialist nations.

We do not need a new port, we need our current ports to be upgraded. Yes infrastructure needs to be built, but you cannot spend money on both building a new city and upgrading the existing infrastructure.

On the subject of nuclear power, I'm sorry but I'm going to have to disagree with you on that as well. To my mind, its too expensive, to dangerous (we do not know how to deal with the waste among many other things), and too big a target for all those terrorists the government keeps telling us about.

There are safer alternatives to nuclear power and I would much rather go down that road.

The upgrading of coal loading in Newcastle will begin in just weeks.
We can hardly load coal in Orange, the bottle neck if it is not now is about to be the railway.
This is a clear need in both rural and interstate lines duplicate existing rail lines and build more.
While we truly must invest in infrastructure in rural centers ,we must face the fact some people just do not want to live there.
Jobs with meaning and a future for the youth who leave in numbers for the city's is a start.
Our love of the sea is not going any place soon and inland jobs could offer sea side holidays without much cost, after all in my area football clubs own whole blocks of such accommodation.

Belly,

The generation of real jobs is the key really. A few years ago, the option of moving various state government department headquarters out into the regional areas was floated as a way of doing this. I think it should be explored again. If a big employer settles in a town, then it tends to attract others to service its employees and so on.

The other thing to consider is that regional centres could compete with metro areas through things like real infrastructure upgrades (telecommunications would have to be at the top of that list).

Real jobs may involve more than shifting government department to the bush.
It has taken place in NSW very often and the attracting firms to rural areas is well under way here already.
My idea about new rail lines and duplication of existing ones will speed up that process.
Freight is much safer on rail than roads and cheaper too, such inland lines opens up the chances for new jobs.
Exporting needs rail, ports and air based transport to be cost affective rail seems to be cheaper than road.
We need to understand the jobs we create will need workers, do we continue to bring the worlds poor to work for a time or more migration?
Yes it opens Pandora's box but this country must and will move inland to do that we will need people.
We too can not overlook the idea of subsidized holidays by the sea.
Already public servants are nothing less than bribed to work inland in NSW and it works.

Liberalcynic,
For someone with such an opinion on economic infrastructure, I am curious, do you have access to a spellchecker?