09-04-2016, 05:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-05-2016, 06:19 AM by thorn bird.)
A spokesman for Bankstown Airport moved to allay concerns about aviation at the site.
“All federal leased airports are required by their lease with the Commonwealth to operate the airport as an airport,” he said.
Yup very true, but the Airport Act and the head leases mandate that all the aviation infrastructure was to be maintained. That the intent of the Act was to reserve airport land for aviation use. So how come you, Mr BAL, closed taxiways, closed runways and costed aviation off the airport so you could take land for your development shark mates to develop.
“Over the years there have been some tenants that have left the airport, through retirement, industry rationalisation, business failure post-GFC or seeking an environment with less compliance issues.”
Oh really, wouldn't have been because rents went up by thousands of percent,and continue to rise. Very short term leases make it almost impossible for any long term aviation industry to develop. Landing fees and parking charges are now the highest in the world resulting in a mass exodus of aircraft to places like Wedderburn, Wollongong, Bathurst, Cessnock
A spokeswoman for Infrastructure Minister Darren Chester has defended the privatisation.
Well of course he would, his party were the ones who stuffed it up in the first place.
The Murky Mandarin worked out a neat way for the Guvmint to affectively "Borrow Money" without it showing on the books and getting the industry to pay the interest bill.
Wonder if the minister would care to divulge exactly how much tax our privatised airports pay each year. How much of the money the entities who bought the leases borrowed offshore, at what interest rate, and how much of the airports turnover disappears to offshore tax havens every year?
“Non-aeronautical land use and commercial activity is necessary to allow airport lease holders to provide the significant investment necessary to maintain and grow airport and aviation infrastructure, she said.
That statement is inutile. Exactly what have any of the entities who purchased the airport leases put into aviation infrastructure? Aviation Infrastructure has now degenerated to third world standards, our airports voted some of the worst in the world.
err Darren old mate, car parks are not aviation infrastructure. Oh and how was runway 18/36 at Bankstown "Non-Aeronautical" land?
“This investment would not have been possible if these airports remained in Government control or, if Government control was to have been maintained, without changes in the arrangements between the Government and airport users to reflect the market value of airport activity.”
[i][b]Again, an inutile statement. The Commonwealth i.e. the people of Australia owned the airports, DEBT FREE"!!!
They were by and large returning profit to the government.
Maybe Do Nothing Darren could give us some idea of exactly what investments have been made in aviation infrastructure since the airports were privatised?
All the profits from the primaries disappears overseas. How does that benefit the Australian taxpayer?
All the profits from the development sharks biting huge chunks out of airport land at secondary airports disappears overseas,how does that benefit the Australian taxpayer or the Industry?
Bankstown airport used to employ over 8000 people, today less than a few hundred since the industry has been priced off the airport, so the Australian taxpayer doesnt even get the benefit of the taxes they used to pay.
[b]Hell, the NSW government didn't even get the benefit of stamp duty on the leases and a whole heap of subsequent transactions.
For years the airport lessee was charging its tenants for council rates, yet not passing it on to council. How was that benefitting the ratepayers of Bankstown?
[/b]
[b]The whole so called privatisation has been a giant Con, it has neither benefitted the Australian pubic nor the aviation industry.
[i][b]The current Court squabble going on in NSW court regarding Bankstown should wave a flag for do nothing Darren. If the development sharks are prepared to fess up what I'm told could amount to over Sixty Million in legal fees, there's got to be a "Nice little earner" in there. Meanwhile a perfectly good Industry spirals down the gurgler, and industry that could have contributed vastly to Australia for as far as you could see into the future.
A Question for the PM. Mr Turnbull you make statements about supporting Innovation,
yet your Bureaucrats with malice and aforethought are suppressing the most innovative industry in the world. Are your words simply rhetoric? or do you mean what you said?, Sir. we are totally confused[/b][/i][/b][/b][/i]
“All federal leased airports are required by their lease with the Commonwealth to operate the airport as an airport,” he said.
Yup very true, but the Airport Act and the head leases mandate that all the aviation infrastructure was to be maintained. That the intent of the Act was to reserve airport land for aviation use. So how come you, Mr BAL, closed taxiways, closed runways and costed aviation off the airport so you could take land for your development shark mates to develop.
“Over the years there have been some tenants that have left the airport, through retirement, industry rationalisation, business failure post-GFC or seeking an environment with less compliance issues.”
Oh really, wouldn't have been because rents went up by thousands of percent,and continue to rise. Very short term leases make it almost impossible for any long term aviation industry to develop. Landing fees and parking charges are now the highest in the world resulting in a mass exodus of aircraft to places like Wedderburn, Wollongong, Bathurst, Cessnock
A spokeswoman for Infrastructure Minister Darren Chester has defended the privatisation.
Well of course he would, his party were the ones who stuffed it up in the first place.
The Murky Mandarin worked out a neat way for the Guvmint to affectively "Borrow Money" without it showing on the books and getting the industry to pay the interest bill.
Wonder if the minister would care to divulge exactly how much tax our privatised airports pay each year. How much of the money the entities who bought the leases borrowed offshore, at what interest rate, and how much of the airports turnover disappears to offshore tax havens every year?
“Non-aeronautical land use and commercial activity is necessary to allow airport lease holders to provide the significant investment necessary to maintain and grow airport and aviation infrastructure, she said.
That statement is inutile. Exactly what have any of the entities who purchased the airport leases put into aviation infrastructure? Aviation Infrastructure has now degenerated to third world standards, our airports voted some of the worst in the world.
err Darren old mate, car parks are not aviation infrastructure. Oh and how was runway 18/36 at Bankstown "Non-Aeronautical" land?
“This investment would not have been possible if these airports remained in Government control or, if Government control was to have been maintained, without changes in the arrangements between the Government and airport users to reflect the market value of airport activity.”
[i][b]Again, an inutile statement. The Commonwealth i.e. the people of Australia owned the airports, DEBT FREE"!!!
They were by and large returning profit to the government.
Maybe Do Nothing Darren could give us some idea of exactly what investments have been made in aviation infrastructure since the airports were privatised?
All the profits from the primaries disappears overseas. How does that benefit the Australian taxpayer?
All the profits from the development sharks biting huge chunks out of airport land at secondary airports disappears overseas,how does that benefit the Australian taxpayer or the Industry?
Bankstown airport used to employ over 8000 people, today less than a few hundred since the industry has been priced off the airport, so the Australian taxpayer doesnt even get the benefit of the taxes they used to pay.
[b]Hell, the NSW government didn't even get the benefit of stamp duty on the leases and a whole heap of subsequent transactions.
For years the airport lessee was charging its tenants for council rates, yet not passing it on to council. How was that benefitting the ratepayers of Bankstown?
[/b]
[b]The whole so called privatisation has been a giant Con, it has neither benefitted the Australian pubic nor the aviation industry.
[i][b]The current Court squabble going on in NSW court regarding Bankstown should wave a flag for do nothing Darren. If the development sharks are prepared to fess up what I'm told could amount to over Sixty Million in legal fees, there's got to be a "Nice little earner" in there. Meanwhile a perfectly good Industry spirals down the gurgler, and industry that could have contributed vastly to Australia for as far as you could see into the future.
A Question for the PM. Mr Turnbull you make statements about supporting Innovation,
yet your Bureaucrats with malice and aforethought are suppressing the most innovative industry in the world. Are your words simply rhetoric? or do you mean what you said?, Sir. we are totally confused[/b][/i][/b][/b][/i]