“(24) To ensure that Australia has transport and communications infrastructure that serves the needs of a modern ‘first-world’ productive economy and that provides for the social interactions of all Australians; this means we need a coherent transport policy that integrates road, rail, air, coastal shipping; we affirm that vital transport infrastructure (Qantas, airports, major rails, ports, freeways etc) should have majority ownership by Australian citizens or governments; we favour a fully or partly Government-owned Very Fast Train between Melbourne and Sydney (then Brisbane); we affirm that telephone and internet services should be available to over 99% of Australians by a competitive private industry sector (with majority Australian shareholders);”

“Very Fast Train”