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Henry comments in The Australian (Friday 8 October) on congestion charging "...if we invested enough in roads, all cars could travel at the speed limit. But the costs of thus expanding road capacity would greatly outweigh the value motorists place on the savings in time and discomfort."
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The hidden cost of road pricing
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Infrastructure Australia, A Report to the Council of Australian Governments
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A review of the publication by Infrastructure Australia - A Report to the Council of Australian Governments, December 2008.
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PM orders high-fibre diet
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FEW communications technologies are as remarkable as fibre optics. Commercial fibre-optic cable first became available in 1981; since then hundreds of millions of cable kilometres have been laid across the world. Over the years, the quality of the cable has improved dramatically: by providing a progressively clearer transmission medium, fibre-optic cables have allowed vast increases in the volumes of information carried over the light waves they channel. Were the oceans as transparent as the cables that are now available, you would be able to stand in the middle of the Pacific and see the ocean floor....
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ACCC Takes Nation to Point of No Return
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It is finally being recognised that substantial parts of our infrastructure industries face serious capacity constraints. The factors behind this are complex.