One Nation funding: lessons learned

On the 26 February 1992 the Prime Minister announced the "ONE NATION" programme which included $454 million for Railway Infrastructure. Three and a half years on what has been achieved and what lessons have been learnt? Before either of those questions can be answered it is necessary to recap the objectives of the One Nation Programme and some of the changes that the Railway Industry was going through at the time the One Nation programme was announced. The SRA was in the process of downsizing and rationalising following Booz-Allen and ICAC, but the announcement of the formation of National Rail on the 30 July 1991 probably was the most significant proposed change to occur to the Railway Industry in 130 years. National Rail (NR), a private company, with its major shareholders being the Commonwealth and State Governments was given a charter to take over the operation and management of all Interstate Freight services. The National Rail charter also provided for the transfer at some future point, from the relevant State Railways, Operational control, Infrastructure and Rollingstock necessary to run its Interstate Freight business. The One Nation Programme, $454 million over 2 years, was specifically put in place by the Commonwealth Government to compliment National Rails 10 year, $1.7 Billion investment programme allocated by the Shareholders. All works under the One Nation programme were proposed to be completed by June 1995.

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• Authors:
  • Golledge K
• Conference:
  • Permanent Way Institution (PWI) NSW 1995 Annual Convention: Tunnelling, Tracking, Tilting, Titillating
• Publication Date: 1995

Media Info

• Pagination: 11p. ; PDF
• Monograph Title: Permanent Way Institution (PWI) NSW, 1995 annual convention

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Financing; Infrastructure
• ATRI Terms: Funding; Infrastructure

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01711417
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 19 2019 2:24PM