[thorn bird]

Well well well
The blot thickens,
Slowly and surely Murkey and BAL's plans for the destruction
of Bankstown airport begin to become apparent.

Seems like the NSW government Super fund is now the owner of the head lease for Bankstown airport.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the Airport Act precluded a trust from owner an Airport.
But since when has the law got in the way when Murky Mandarins are there to give a nudge huge wink wink.

Rumours are that a lot of pressure is being placed on CAsA to ignore safety issues, as they did with the closure of the only North South runway in the Sydney basin.

The State Guv'mint apparently wants to build an industrial building on the helicopter training ground which will require the removal of a windsock. Of course aircraft don't need a windsock, if they need to know what the wind is they can ask the tower, of course the night freighters outside tower hours will just have to guess. Someone very high up the food chain in CAsA has ordained that nobody at the coal face is to talk about it.

Always wondered why the NSW government ignored the stamp duty issue on the original head lease, I mean, with penalties that could have been over 60 million $$$ into the state coffers, obviously a hell of a lot more than that is in the pipeline. I'm told this is just the start of the industrialisation of the entire northern side of the airport.

Also heard on the grape vine that some four story apartment blocks, exclusively for Muslims and an Islamic prayer hall are to be built in the Georges hall shopping centre. Bit close to the airport perimeter thinks me, then who cares about runway splays or cherokees through someones front window?

A bloke could perhaps be forgiven for imagining this is all part of a diabolical plot to destroy an industry for short term fiscal gain. Pricing the industry off its airports, regulating it into oblivion, aint Australia become a grand place, corruption ignored or condoned, laws made to be broken, environment ignored.