We will work closely with local government on all proposed new infrastructure and upgrades. We want to ensure that all projects are managed properly and are completed on time and on budget.
Reduce Road Tax and transfer the RTA injury component to the insurance industry, so that they can handle road accident injuries.
Improve street lighting in all residential and country roads. Too many of our roads do not have enough or any street lighting. Improved lighting reduces road accidents.
Maintain roads and highways to an acceptable standard. All damaged roads, must be repaired to ensure safety and a smooth ride. We need a national reporting register, where members of the public can upload either a photograph or description of a pot hole, with the approximate location, so that a repair team can be dispatched to fix all the pot holes. If enough pot holes are reported on a particular stretch of road, then we can budget to repair and resurface the whole road.
The rail network needs to cater for and meet the needs of the public. We need to improve the services, trains and safety to ensure the passenger gets a rewarding experience. Trains need to be a place of safety, free from crime and trouble makers. We will up the security at railway stations and on the trains. A zero tolerance of anti-social behaviour will be adopted, with severe punishments for offenders.
To open-up our rural and regional sectors, we must have high speed railways, that can commute people quickly over large distances. We will research and develop our own high-speed trains, including maglev train systems. With cheap electricity produced by our coal fired power stations, we will be able to electrify the entire railway network, which will make the introduction of high-speed electric trains even more viable.
Aircraft are essential to Australia and enable quick and affordable travel interstate. As we develop and build new cities, these will include new airports enabling people to travel by air from their nearest airport instead of having to travel many kilometres to the existing main airports.
Shipping brings in the goods we need and takes out the goods that we sell and export. We need to develop and merchant ship building industry to make us non-reliant on foreign ships. Also, with the potential advent of new inland waterway canals, built throughout Australia to channel water around the country, there is an opportunity to make these canals capable of transporting goods and will create a greater need for small ships and barges to commute goods, that otherwise would be shipped by rail or road.
Good, reliable, efficient safe public transport is essential, this includes, buses, trams, and trains. The services need to meet the demands of the paying public and to be properly run to ensure that the public get value for money as well as keeping the services financially viable.
City East – East Traralgon – Rosedale
City West – Warrnambool
To alleviate the pressure on Melbourne it will be necessary to build two new cities, one in the east and the other in the west. Money that would have to be spent on Melbourne to upgrade the infrastructure, can instead be used to construct the new cities. Both cities will be planned and designed to accommodate a maximum capacity of four million people. All the roads, railways, shopping centres, commercial and residential buildings, will all be mapped out. The cities will then be left to grow organically. To kick start the cities, you will need businesses in place to attract the workers, who in turn will live in the city, the Government will need to invest in State owned businesses. The West City will be where we build the submarines, so there will be significant construction work on building the ship yards and submarine pens. Subject to negotiation, this is where we will situate the Volks Wagon or Audi Motor Vehicle plant, if we can strike a deal with the Germans.
The East City will be where we situate the Possum Works, designing and building the MWT and other fire fighting vehicles. We will also establish the helicopter design and manufacturing plant in this city. Subject to negotiation, this is where we will situate the Leopard 2 tank plant, if we can strike a deal with the Germans.
New housing estate developments will be built in each city with sovereign money. The construction costs will be managed in such a way to be able to build a four-bedroom house on a 600sm2 block for approximately $400,000 land and house.
Business Tax incentives will be issued to encourage new business start-ups or subsidiaries of existing businesses to deploy to these new cities, to start the process of building them up.
Supporting business growth, such as butchers, green grocers, bakers etc, should be organic, as demand for the basics of life grows. As the cities grow and expand, new areas of the city can be opened up to accommodate the growth, as per the original city plan.
Victorian Tasmania Bridge – Sir Barry Humphries – Dame Edna Everage Bridge
Dual High-Speed Rail each direction
Dual Carriage Highway each direction
Road cars on top, Trains underneath in a secure steel box frame type construction placed across steel concrete pillars positioned every 0.5 km, at least 100m above sea level to accommodate for large ships. Covered in a reinforced glass or perspex roof and sides to keep out the wind and rain, with vents in the top to extract fumes. It will directly employ thousands, with tens of thousands indirectly engaged in the manufacture of the component parts.
Start Port Welshpool to Notch Island 32.4km
Bridge to Snake Island
Road/Rail across Snake Island
Bridge Port Welshpool to Sand Island 10.5km
Road/Rail across Sand Island
Bridge Sand Island to Notch Island 21.9km
Bridge to Notch Island to Rag Island 1.7km
Rag Island to Hogan Group 39.6km
Hogan Group Island to Deal Island 41.2km
Deal Island via Craggy Island 36.2 to Flinders Island 83.4km
Craggy Island to Flinders Island 47.2km
Road/Rail across Flinders Island 72km
Bridge Flinders Island to Cape Barron Island 47.8km
Road/Rail across Cape Barren Island 20km
Bridge Cape Barren Island to Clarke Island 14.7km
Road/Rail across Clarke Island 10km
Bridge Clarke Island to Cape Portland 28.4km
Road/Rail to Launceston 164km
Total distance Welshpool to Cape Portland 289.2km
Total land road/rail 102km
Total bridge 187.2km – say 200 km
Estimated Cost $80 billion and ten years to build.
As at 2011 longest water bridge was 40km and cost US$9b and took 5 years to build with 10,000 workers. Another 188km project cost US$42.3b and 10 years to build with 50,000 workers.
Highly beneficial for Tasmania enabling quick access for produce especially fresh fish and dairy.
Will link Tasmania to the mainland.
Will enable easy flow to and from the Island to mainland.
Thousands of jobs created for Tasmanians and Victorians.
Steal RSJ manufacture shared amongst hundreds of steel fabrication companies.
Increase for steel production, coal production, engineering, electrical, telecommunications.
Desalinated water can be piped along the bridge to Tasmania from Wonthaggi
Easy Commuting from Tasmania to Victoria with highspeed 200km per hour trains
Tolls will be introduced to pay for bridge, $10 one way for driving and $5 one way for train commuter per day.
Cost Examples
Monash users 180,000 per day
1000 vehicles per day return trip 1000 x $10 x 2 = 20000 /day x 365 = $7.3m per year
1000 users $80b / $7.3m = 10,959 years
10,000 users $80b / $73m = 1,096 years
100,000 users $80b / $730m = 109 years
This will hopefully encourage businesses in Tasmania to increase exports to the mainland, which currently use shipping and aircraft. This will reduce shipping costs and increase speed and regularity for goods exported. We could see an increase in commercial use of the bridge. We may see an increase in commuter travel, people choosing to live in Northern Tasmania and commuting to Victoria to work. Increase in weekend tourism for Tasmania.
The FRV and CFA will fall under the Emergency Services, which will be part of the Infrastructure and Transport ministry, because they are responsible for protecting the infrastructure from fire and perils. We will ensure that the fire services have access to the best and latest equipment to fight fires, including the special vehicles that will be developed at the Possum Works facility.
COUNTRY FIRE AUTHORITY
We will undertake a complete review of the CFA, including workloads, work conditions and safety. The long-term health of our volunteer firemen and women is extremely important, as they place their lives on the line every time they attend a fire emergency. We will also undertake a review of their employment conditions, award conditions and remuneration.
FIRE RESCUE VICTORIA
We will undertake a complete review of the FRV, including workloads, work conditions and safety. The long-term health of our firemen and women is extremely important, as they place their lives on the line every time they attend a fire emergency. We will also undertake a review of their employment conditions, award conditions and remuneration.
FRV AND CFA LIFE INSURANCE
We will introduce a scheme that provides automatic free life insurance for all serving fire fighters, so that in the event of a loss of life or serious injury, the fireman’s family will not go for wanting; and in respect of an injury the actual fireman will be suitably compensated.
The criteria for obtaining a driving licence will be changed. The requirement to pass a written test will remain and so will the requirement to undertake 100 hours training prior to taking the test will remain. However, 50 hours of the training must be undertaken using a qualified driving instructor. At approximately $50 per hour this will cost $2500 to attain. Any newly passed driver, whilst still on their Ps, who commit any driving offence, will be required to re-sit the 50 hours driving instruction, but at a cost of $100 per lesson. This should act as a deterrent to all new drivers who fail to live up to their driving responsibilities.
