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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" /><meta name="Generator" content="MS Exchange Server version 14.02.5004.000" /><title>RE: [AusNOG] AAPT / TPG Merge NWB</title></head><body>Here here! A single regulated national railway to Sydney is all we will ever need. Legislate those pesky airlines and roads out of existence, put in non-complete clauses so no-one can ever build anything else ever again, and we can all live in a prescribed governmental nirvana, its a model that's been proven to work again and again.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 June 2014 19:04:25 GMT+10:00, Rod Veith <rod@rb.net.au> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Quote Paul</font></span><span lang="en-au"><i> <font face="Calibri">"</font></i></span><span lang="en-au"><i><font face="Calibri">…</font><font face="Calibri">…</font><font face="Calibri"></font></i></span><span lang="en-au"><i> <font face="Calibri">Last mile infrastructure competition would be a huge bonus for Australian consumers.</font></i></span><span lang="en-au"><i><font face="Calibri">"</font></i></span><span lang="en-au"><i></i></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">It is the last place competition makes sense.</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> Should we</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">also</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">have 4 providers of railway</font><font face="Calibri"> line</font><font face="Calibri">s to Sy</font><font face="Calibri">dney? or</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">3</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> driveways into your house?</font></span><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">A national provider, under regulation</font></span><span lang="en-au">,<font face="Calibri"> makes the most sense for Australia. Competition is not</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> right cure for all problems.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Rod</font></span><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
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