If YOU were PM: Nation Building or Nation Dividing?
Channel: Dave Pellowe
Date: 2023-06-16

Annually, the Australian road death toll is 1,300, with over 18,000 serious road accidents, and the cost of maintenance, congestion and pollution exceeding $50 billion.

Other nations with coastlines have Motorways of the Seas programs which have eliminated the need for 60% of previous coastal heavy vehicle traffic: trucks. It’s been suggested that Australia should imitate this success to slash the road death toll, serious accidents, traffic congestion, road maintenance costs and pollution by as much as half and save an astonishing $25 billion.

How’s this for a thought experiment?

Next time you are stuck in a traffic jam or hear about an accident involving a truck, or drive through road works where no one is working, imagine you were the Prime Minister and had the power to implement just one nation building project.

Would you: A, develop the modest infrastructure required to support a network of coastal motorways like so many other nations with extensive coastlines to save thousands of lives and billions of dollars, or B, develop yet another Canberra bureaucracy to make the Aboriginal Industry or the Climate Industry happy?

POSITION VACANT: Prime Minister with some common sense