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They tried. FMG tried to force the issue but BHP just told them to get stuffed. Why would you want to help a competitor? :confused: Better to get them to stump up the couple of billion and cut into their bottom line.

It's still on. Read the Main Roads website. I'm working on a development in the area and you can't say boo without Main Roads sticking their nose in.

I'm talking Federal funding. It's the Perth-Darwin National Highway not the Swan Valley Bypass.

Yeah $1.1B > $6.7B :confused:

Meanwhile, the Banana Benders get promised $6.7B for a road!!!!!! See the hypocrisy here

We should start towing their cars back across the border. :D

But I haven't got time to count them as I've lost count of the federally funded road projects in NSW.

Didn't say anything about ingenuity, just the fairness in getting 45% of the GST we raise back from the feds and dropping. Meanwhile NSW and Vic get almost all of it back whilst we support them.

No, just the frustration of having to support the rest of Australia. How our GST being spent over east is just the tip of the iceberg.

Now, you shouldn't have gone and said that......... :mad:

Dunno, but "Confidence" is sometimes intangible but oh so real.

Um, MRRT gets the boot, Carbon Tax gets the boot, 457 visa restrictions eased rtc and thus the business landscape becomes more investor friendly. That might have some effect? :confused:

Exactly. People keep getting the construction boom confused with the production boom. What is happening in WA is a direct result of construction workforces being scaled back as major projects wrap up. That being said, it's not like everything in the O&G and Min sector is stopping...

Today in the Sunday Times, woe is me stories about people having to take pay cuts to keep their jobs. Heard a rumour that Rio are going to offer another round of redundancies starting tomorrow. People saying the boom has peaked are half right. The construction boom has, but not the...