[thorn bird]

The Chooks come home to roost? Or discretion is the better half of valour?
Or the liberal application of Go Away money makes problems go away?

This AM around 9.30 it was announced by the Federal Government that Go Away money.....errr sorry,
Compensation, would be paid to the long suffering people affected by contamination of Williamstown
Amberly and Oaky airports with fire fighting foam.

Aint that nice, lawyers are ecstatic, but begs the question, what about the secondary Airports like Bankstown for example?

Liberal application of such foam by old Tug Wilson and his cohort in years gone by, unaware of course, of the dangerous stuff it contained made poor old Bankstown, along with other stuff like shite pits, buried unexploded ordinance, and large quantities of bunker oil a fairly toxic place.

This has been compounded in recent times by the owners of the airport leases.

Desperate to force aviation from the airport, draconian rents were imposed to clear the way for development of an industrial park.

Using the pretence that Bankstown was Commonwealth land, which it is not, it is State land that just happens to be owned by the commonwealth. They circumvented State environmental law's, the airports Act and the leases they signed, wrote their own environmental impact statements and proceeded to close runways and taxiways and cover a floodplain with asbestos contaminated land fill on top of all the other toxic material.

Surely, given what has occurred, Bankstown is only suitable as a sight for an airport, development of anything else is out of the question, at the very least.