Are you serious? Baird dismisses $1.8b for WestConnex

Jacob Saulwick Julia Gillard and Anthony Albanese's promise of money for Sydney's WestConnex motorway in Tuesday's budget has been dismissed by the state government as essentially meaningless.

Budget to include $3b tunnel linking Sydney motorways

Jacob Saulwick Roads Minister Duncan Gay says talks are underway to secure federal funding for a proposed $3 billion F3 to M2 motorway in Sydney's north but the project is not over the line yet.

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Why a very fast train will never fly

Jacob Saulwick First up, and to be clear, no one is going to be building high-speed rail in Australia any time soon.

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Why a very fast train system will never fly

Jacob Saulwick First up, and to be clear, no one is going to be building high-speed rail in Australia any time soon.

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Laying property price myths to rest

Jacob Saulwick In Australia's major cities, we're facing a New York-style of housing crisis - it's too expensive.

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New age mantra: if you can't fix it, play it smart

Jacob Saulwick Gittins is at the beach, and my rant is about a phrase, or variations of the phrase.

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Ideological fight over rail terminal could jam roads

Jacob Saulwick To drive the Hume Highway between Melbourne and Sydney next to a B-double truck is invariably to question your place in the world.

Credit card rate refusal

Daniella Miletic, Jacob Saulwick Banks and credit card companies are pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars in extra interest payments by refusing to pass on Reserve Bank rate cuts to credit cards.

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How to land the jumbo benefits of the Asian century

Jacob Saulwick If the coming century is to be the Asian one, it makes sense to allow people from Asia to get here.

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Free public transport not fair to all

Jacob Saulwick It sounds great in theory but the reality is that people in the wealthier, better-served areas would benefit the most from the introduction.

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Answer for public transport: make it better, not cheaper

Jacob Saulwick Should public transport be free? It is one of the perennials. At a forum this week, I had to try to explain why it seemed to be taking forever for Sydney to install the latest incarnation of its...

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White line fever exacts heavy toll

Jacob Saulwick Business wants more bitumen, but a road less travelled could be good for everyone.

Bankers face axe as jobs go overseas

Gareth Hutchens, Jacob Saulwick AUSTRALIA'S banks could cull 7000 staff in the next two years as they scramble to slash costs and send more jobs overseas.

Bank staff face storm of job cuts

Gareth Hutchens and Jacob Saulwick Australia's banks may cull 7000 staff in the next two years as they aim to slash costs.

Cost rail projects properly to bring down the bills

Jacob Saulwick It costs too much to build train lines in NSW. The question is why and what can be done about it. First up, a disclaimer: I don't know anything about building train lines.

Financial strain over new trains made plain

Philip Wen, Jacob Saulwick TENSE negotiations between the NSW state government and Reliance Rail, the troubled public-private partnership delivering the Waratah train into Sydney's rail network, have been pitched into...

Airport can fit more flights, says new boss

Jacob Saulwick THE incoming chief executive of Sydney Airport, Kerrie Mather, says the airport can continue to increase patronage even with government flight restrictions that increase the number of flights during...

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How Berejiklian can survive the north-west frontier

Jacob Saulwick John Watkins wants Gladys Berejiklian to succeed, he just knows it will be difficult. Watkins, the former deputy premier, spent three years as NSW transport minister and, strangely enough for that...

Call for ACCC inquiry into Sydney Airport

Jacob Saulwick THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission should undertake a detailed review of Sydney Airport's commercial conduct, the international airline industry says, claiming the airport has been...