[thorn bird]

Not just Gina for PM Gobbles old mate.

That man Wagner in the news again.

The Australian todays inquirer page 11 by Sue Neales "Darling Downs on the up".

The article deals with the booming export driven rise in agricultural exports to China from the Darling Downs in QLD.

Mr Wagner says his long-term vision is starting to be realised.....wouldn't it be nice if our polli-wafflers had just a smidgeon of this mans vision?

"The Wellcamp airport and its freight terminal, shiny white passenger terminal and 2.87km runway is at its core.

Now Mr. Wagner is setting his sights on the inland Brisbane-Melbourne railway. He's prepared to stump up $60 mil of his own money to bring the rail line along the boundary of his new airport rather than its planned path 15Km to the west, turning Wellcamp into a major intermodal transport hub. He also envisions high speed passenger rail being built to parallel the inland freight route, connected to Wellcamp would make it truly BNE's second airport with travel times between BNE and Wellcamp down to 30 minutes.

From that man himself:

"This part of Queensland needs a long-term vision, not just for agriculture but tourism too. What I am talking about is a 50 to 100 year plan around getting the infrastructure right, for us, for Toowoomba, and for Australia"

"Absolutely it's about self-interest but its also about regional and national interest; we live in a world economy and if Australia wants to remain globally competitive, we have to have world-class infrastructure linking such a centrally important place as Toowoomba to the world."

With that sort of vision Mr. Wagner gets my vote, our current crop of Polli-wafflers can't see past the next election.