The purpose of this project has been to identify and scope with key stakeholders, potential new strategic industry development activities in and around the Western Sydney Employment Area that could be developed, both directly or indirectly, based on existing or future supply chain capabilities and current/future growth opportunities with a new airport planned within the...

Labor spokesman for infrastructure and transport Anthony Albanese claims the Greens would close Kingsford Smith Airport and oppose Badgerys Creek airport, leaving Sydney with no airport at all.

The 1960s signalled the onset of the jet age and cities worldwide rushed to accommodate this new modernity. The jet age spawned the construction of the Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne: Australia’s first purpose-built jetport. Although now considered purely functional in the 21st century, in 1970, Tullamarine was the height of modernity and progress. Its design...

This briefing paper analyses, at a theoretical level, the potential economic benefits of secondary airport competition in the Sydney context. Introduction On the 3rd April 2014, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published their latest airport monitoring report which found that Sydney Airport had again performed the worst across a number of areas in...

This paper presents a timeline of all key policy positions of Federal and State Governments and Oppositions with respect to a second Sydney airport since the end of 2007, and includes brief summaries and links to all of the key reports. Introduction Since the 1940s, Federal and State governments have been grappling with the need...