Meanwhile, this was not a prank. On March 4, NSW Government was forced to release the papers by which they arrived at the executive business case for the proposed $14billion Westconnex Motorway.
> Dr MEHREEN FARUQI [3.27 p.m.]: I seek leave to amend Private Members' > Business item No. 1513 outside the Order of Precedence by inserting after > paragraph (a): > > (b) all correspondence, meeting diaries, meeting > agendas, and meeting minutes regarding the development of the business case > for the WestConnex project; > > (c) any advice concerning the development of the > business case for the WestConnex project; > > (d) any document referring or relating to traffic > forecasts, patronage estimates, routes, property acquisitions that were used > to develop the business case for the WestConnex project; and .... http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/Parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC20140304021?open&refNavID=HA8_1 The funniest paper, I read in the Non Privileged collection, was that the promotional material had to convince a commuter on Penrith Railway station that construction of the Motorway was a good thing. The identified Key Benefits of the motorway are gobsmacking, particularly like the claim of 40minutes time saving. The rail trip from Parramatta to the Airport is currently less than 40 minutes! http://www.westconnex.com.au/about/key_benefits.html All 20 word clouds derived from the Non Privileged Document Index are now available at: http://worditout.com/discover-word-clouds/search/Westcon Marghanita Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > Linkers might be interested in the Word Clouds of the Index to the recently > released West Connex Papers. > The index is extensive and proving a challenge to the generators so, I have > randomly broken the > 20000 or so entries into separate documents. > > http://worditout.com/word-cloud/377944 > http://worditout.com/word-cloud/377948 > http://worditout.com/word-cloud/377957 > http://worditout.com/word-cloud/377959 > > The 21MB index to the unprivledged & priviledged documents can be downloaded > at: > http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/lc/lctabdoc.nsf/cccc870c6126b1b6ca2571ee000318a4/0d3a5afe584d3ae8ca257ca6002b233f/$FILE/Index%20-%20WestConnex%20Business%20Case.pdf > > Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz Ramin Communications Pty Ltd http://ramin.com.au/ Phone:(+61)0414-869202 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
