Maybe if we didn’t sell off our toll roads, we’d have a money generating asset that could help us build new money generating assets?
Maybe if we didn’t sell off our toll roads, we’d have a money generating asset that could help us build new money generating assets?
Then how does WA manage it?
By digging shit out of the ground and selling it overseas.
Ah yes, an activity that we famously don’t do in NSW.
Welcome to 2025 and a capitalist society.
I don’t like it any more than the next person, but it ain’t changing anytime soon without a revolution.
Not to the extent WA does it. They probably got more square meters of gold mines than they do housing.
To tax mining companies more is only going to happen after a revolution… like in the People’s Republic of Queensland.
Look, you’re not wrong, but that’s not an argument against taxing the revenue we do generate from exports…
I’m not arguing against it, I’m saying it’s not done to the extent it should be.
Much like NSW roads are privately owned, so are WA mines. Put that in state hands and you can build as many bloody toll free roads as you want - nationwide.
By having an extraordinarily favourable deal on GST revenue which everyone else pays for?
Also helps when you’re racking in money and don’t need to really spend it because you have barely any population and most of it is centralized in a single city. Means your infrastructure spend is minimal and the mining companies take care of the rest
Centralised in the longest city in the world?
I mean length doesn’t really mean much… The Great Wall of China stretches a total of 21,000km yet only takes up an area of 120km2. In fact having a longer city generally makes infrastructure even easier. One train line up and down without the need for interconnections and different lines feeding into transport hubs.
I heard it’s more about city girth.
Some commuters don’t even need that big of a city, they enjoy a medium-sized one the best
In Australia urban infrastructure Plan Ning is a city in China.
Did the rabbits get in?
No, they were stopped by the Emperor Nasi Goreng.