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I live in Melbourne, the one thing that's always happening is construction, its everywhere but it always seems like it never gets done. Another topic you could talk about is the Melbourne airport train that keeps getting pushed back.
A reason for that is the influence of the CFMEU over the state government. They lobby very hard for large contradiction projects mostly as a way to have jobs for union members so they have a reason to be in the union. That’s why despite many of the skyscrapers in the cbd being unoccupied they still continue to build more even though we really don’t need them lmao
I live in Sydney and the Sydney metro west project is going ahead after the new state government had seriously looked at canceling the project and another thing is that an additional station is likely to be built between parramatta and Sydney Olympic Park at camellia
As they should. Yes, it's more money than planned.....BUT honestly which people fail to understand is. As long as the project is going to improve on something, and actually gets done or even process is made. Money isn't a problem. No powerful country fears spending money.😎
Isn't that the suburb that supposed to be one of the most toxic in the whole of Sydney? not for social media, but actual heavy metals and industrial waste? Fun times digging that up..
This is definitely one of your standout videos-for me at least. For reasons I can’t exactly explain-and I’m a steadfast subscriber to your channel-this particular post totally grabbed my attention straight off. Something I love when it occurs. The subject matter here captured my imagination because one doesn’t often realize how architecturally bold, aggressive, and logical Australia is being at this time. Who knew? I found it genuinely riveting and creatively inspiring. It actually reinvigorated my sagging architectural creative mindset. I totally owe that to this very video, and believe me, it’s most appreciated. The subject of projects in Australia captured interested me because one doesn’t often realize how architecturally bold, aggressive, and innovative Australia is being at this time. I mean, of course, that country is historically excellent at designing and building remarkable things. However, here you perfectly presented their currently astonishing “new think” efforts on a big silver platter. Who knew? Whoa Nellie! Good for you! Your video just made me super jealous of the building designs coming out of Australia. Even what’s now being built in London and China are inspired eye catching concepts. However, it’s the Australian projects in your video that I find utterly logical by far because they apparently did their homework to accommodate directly how people actually live, move about, and likely may by 2030. The parsing out and organizing of the conundrums of issues each project faces-politically, economically, socially, environmentally, their budgetary pressures, engineering challenges, fluctuating completion deadlines, and dealing with the often unforeseen-is brilliant in this video. I badly desire by far more architectural concept overreach in the U.S. that incites passionately expressed debate and cognitive conflict. To preserve the old while building new-but not for new’s sake. As President Kennedy said regarding our race to space: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” This thinking is vital and is the life’s blood of architectural concepts during any era-it clearly is in Australia today. The United States needs building projects that capture the attention and excites its 333 million citizens-of all ages. As comedian Lewis Black says, “Build something f___ing big and ‘stuuu-pendous’ because-if you build it, the ‘peee-ople’ will come. Build a huge damn dam in Utah because peee-ople will pay to see that!” Like Australia, besides highways, bridges, and train tracks, what on the grandest scale could be built in the U.S. that would be forever prominent and tap into the minds, hearts, and pride of its citizens? To me American architects have been playing it safe (I can see the hate comments now), over the recent years. We need more big and unpredictable building and project designs that embrace evolving purposes, evolutionary sustainability, that are technically constructed for longevity. Much like the Australian projects highlighted in this TH-cam video. Shitkies, even Moscow’s rising skyscrapers behind the Kremlin are actually impressive. Huge concepts using a CAD program are great -but there needs to be more beyond that in the U.S. What’s our next Boston “Big Dig” to build that’s tangible to everyone? Australia, thank goodness, is doing a 180° turn, countering what’s occurring in Dubai, Hong Kong, and Miami to name a few. I do outright dislike and dismiss entirely the macramé looking skyline that Dubai has become and sports with its parody of facades. Worse, I much dislike entirely Dubai’s horrible urban planning that outright ignores, and is literally hostile towards, the simple tenets of “city” dynamics. Real cities, like those in Australia, prosper from the sum of their bustling neighborhood communities that are seamlessly tied together by robust rapid transit systems. Australia clearly understands and respects how people actually live in its urban regions. Imagine had Dubai 25 years ago embraced a “mixed use” city plan, with various elevated public transit systems (it’s terrain doesn’t support underground infrastructure), with individually identifiable community hubs-what a template for the world Dubai could have been. Upsetting, still-all the construction workers who actually built Dubai’s skyscrapers can’t afford to live in (nor reside near) that metropolis built for millionaires. They’re actually not welcome particularly the barely payed tradesmen imported from neighboring countries. If I may digress: FYI (no joke) the Burj Khalifa in Dubai has no grey/black water sewage system running to it-it’s basically a 830 meter tall Porta Potty. All of its waste water (grey and black) literally has to be transported away from the structure by truck daily. Dang, maybe just fill tanker cars with sewage and run them via a dedicated rail line out of the city. Couldn’t build a like running structure in Australia. This video got me asking the question: Why on earth isn’t the United States (of all places) not currently on par with Australia architecturally speaking? Not to mention urban planning wise. Back to this wonderful video. It goes without saying that your usually stellar and wonderfully consistent production values are on full display here-then some. This video doesn’t waste a word due to its tight and confidently well edited script. Its chosen plethora of pertinent information is perfectly dissected and concise. Per usual-your visually smooth, seamless, and captivating editing of each segment is excellent. And your choices of areas to highlight brought everything home to great satisfaction. One didn’t have to mentally muddle through placing the puzzle pieces together like other such video channels do regarding this genre. This video didn’t feel boilerplate nor rudimentary-a framework it could have easily fallen into but didn’t. I greatly appreciated your outlining the sometimes controversial and cumbersome facets that face various projects e.g. the budgeted vs. the actual project cost overruns; political tugs of war; environmental realities; foresight regarding any economic impact; and the acceptance (or lack there of) by citizens. Finally, the only Australian project that causes me significant pause is regarding the new WSI Airport. I think its location is perfect but there’s a big “however” regarding traveler logistics-it’s about the 40 kilometer distance to and from central Sydney… …it’s “literally” about the same distance between downtown Washington, D.C. (where I live) to the heavily used Baltimore/Washington International Airport in Maryland. No matter if there’s a super fast bullet train on a fast track between the airport and Sydney there better be a heavy duty highway or highways built to the airport as well because passengers radiate from around the airport-not from train stations. The airport is “the” hub for everything. At best, any train platforms would literally have to be directly under plane waiting rooms and boarding gates to be genuinely enticing-but that’s not exactly full proof logistically either. Getting off an 8-hour flight from Hawaii to visit Aunt Sue and Uncle Henry who live south of Sydney (with luggage) presents black and white dilemmas. Does Uncle Henry pick you up from the super busy downtown Sydney train station or from the airport? You’ve been on a long flight, have to go through customs, wait to get your luggage from the carousel, take a tram to the trains, then buy a train ticket, ride the train, then trudge through the bustling city station into the heavily congested city streets around the station, then have to face the unavoidable car ride to wherever. Then there is the option to tag and pay a taxi or schedule an Uber or Lyft ride. No matter, this opinion is very pricey and vulnerable to price gouging-particularly for tourists. Where I am nobody uses the train that runs between the BWI Airport and D.C. Everyone gets dropped off or picked up by car at BWI-and the only way this works is with the four, wide, multiple lane primary highways that wrap around the airport. They being: I-195, MD Rt. 295, I-695 and I-97. Currently BWI only carries a quarter of the flight traffic that’s anticipated for WSI in 2030. We endure it, but the four BWI highway routes get clogged “before” both the morning and evening rush hours-and worse still-during. I sure hope that by 2030 the WSI will be ready out of the proverbial boarding gate. Fingers crossed. But I’d start mixing that concrete to build some hefty highway to WSI starting now. Just saying. Thanks for reading, - W. Washington, D.C.
It’s taken 2 years for a 6m bridge to be built in my local suburb. It cuts off a significant road and the residents are furious as its completion has been pushed back again. I can’t imagine how long it would take for these mega projects if they can’t finish a 6 meter bridge 😂
I live in sydney. It's surreal how close this video is too government ads. Most of these projects don't get built due to constant privatisation. If we had a decent ministry of public building works and infrastructure, maybe we could actually do all this stuff
Privatisation should work if local infrastructure is owned by locals, eg unions, superfunds, members-owned co-op banks, which have synergetic interests to keep revenues and profits in the local community, and to invest in ongoing maintenance to keep infrastructure safe. Privatisation to foreign entities rips profit, jobs, revenues out of local economies, pushing up prices while gouging wages. Privatisation to foreign owners including ASX shares, should be banned, for all Australian critical imfrastructure. It is not socially sustainable for offshore investors to erode the local economy.
It may be good if you live there. Living in the outskirts of Melbourne even with lots of road building, tunnel building etc. then I prefer to stay far away. The traffic is bad and has only gotten worse the last 45 years that I have lived here. Melbourne is a flat city that covers a lot of land. Most people live on the ground floor. Some 4 t0 8 story buildings in the inner suburbs like in most European big cities would be better I think.
Don't get too excited, Australia will cancel major projects due things like one tree frog being displaced from a muddy ditch. We have green terrorists in our government who will happily stop a project that can benefit all for some pathetic reason. We of all countries should be building nuclear energy in our vast barren country, not some ineffective wind farms that are maintenance heavy & expensive to run.
I am an Australian resident who migrated from China years ago. One thing I find puzzling is why China can construct monumental projects, such as the Baihetan Hydropower Station-the second largest in the world-in just five years (2017-2022), or build hundreds of kilometers of metro subway systems in 5-8 years across many major cities. Meanwhile, in Australia, even much smaller projects often take several times longer to complete and exceed their budgets. What confuses me even more is that while people frequently complain about these delays and cost overruns, no serious corrective actions seem to follow. In China, such inefficiency might be viewed as a major red flag, potentially indicating severe corruption, whereas here, it often becomes the subject of jokes and resigned acceptance. China undoubtedly faces many intolerable issues, but its ability to execute large-scale infrastructure projects efficiently serves as a stark benchmark. It should prompt democratic countries to reflect on how much more effective things could be if systemic inefficiencies were addressed.
Could have something to do with the amount of people that live in China as well, more man power = faster results and China would also have a lot more money than Australia
The solar farms should be powering OZ and not send it overseas we have some of the most expensive power prices in the world so stupid. But that's Australia gov for ya .
These revenues will be used by Grok Vemtures to invest in other sustainable energy projects in Australia. It uses cheap land and a simple, single-direction link to reduce costs, for proportionately high returns. More capital to invest early, earned from Singapore's strong dollars, delivers capital to Australian investors to fund even more projects locally. Instead of foreign investors buying our critical infrastructure projects and pushing our prices up to cover thier profits, Sun Cable uses the reverse. Singapore's payments to us will lower the amount we as a nation need to spend for the switch to 100% renewables.
Why is it that we have a foreign project supplying power to another country but our government says we cannot do the same for Australians. We sell gas projects using a technology banned in Australia but we then give this resource to a foreign company and allow fracking in an area where we have a part of the great artesian basin. We will be facing some huge potential pollution problems that Australia will be forced to fix. So many of these projects are subject to corruption and poor compliance to environmental and other obligations.
I agree, FIRB should be held accountable...australian citizens the people and taxpayers needs should be a priority included in the deals... but I love the concept of these projects....forward thinking. Also if all government buildings were equipped and solar powered that would reduce the maintenance costs of gvt buildings....which would end up costing less to taxpayers..... just thinking out loud!
As you may or may not be looking for other projects, the Province of Saskatchewan has some large projects coming in the near future. New Downtown Event Centre including a new and larger arena for sporting event like the local WHL team The Blades and NLL team The Rush, and bigger concert venues. A new library is being built downtown as well. A brand new Bus Rapid Transit System is being included as well to help with transporting locals and visitors in and out of the downtown area and more. With the booming economy of Saskatchewan, even more possible large, even mega projects could be in the works. Hope to see it in your videos one day.
@@billyates112 not only that but the city has hired one of the best project planners in the world to oversee the project, they have designed successful downtown event center all over the world.
We are too far into it now. Nothing great in life normally doesn't go to plan, and nothing great comes easy or cheap either sadly. If the project is going to improve on something, money isn't a problem. Why do you think America is considered to be the strongest country in the world? Wild guess, it's because their government and people don't fear spending money.
@@fishofgold6553 I understand. Here in India, there are very few projects that are completed within budget. But I expected that things would be different in Australia.
Here in Western Australia we've built a new Stadium and Childrens Hospital, both worth over a billion Dollars each, on time and within budget. Anything involving a tunnel always has cost blowouts. And anything involving the Military, because all Military Contractors are used to fleecing the American Government, who hands out money like candy at Halloween.
@@tsubadaikhan6332 "...all Military Contractors are used to fleecing the American Government, who hands out money like candy at Halloween." Yeah, recently I've heard that this is a major cause of cost blowouts and a valid reason to say that public-private partnerships are a scam. Government should hold the superior position in such contracts and be able to sue the private partner for breach of contract if the private entity stubbornly slows the project and tries to squeeze more money out of it.
Southbank in Melbourne is more like A collection of concrete and glass termite mounds than a place humans would want to live. I should know, I worked as a tower crane dog man on many of these buildings. These towers plunge straight down to the traffic nightmare that is city road with a thin strip of bitumen footpath on either side of it. There are no trees, no cafes, no pubs. The “entertainment precinct” adjacent to it is a casino and a series of overpriced restaurants that all face onto the Yarra river but present nothing but a series of entrances to underground car park entrances towards Southbank and that I would feel extremely uncomfortable walking home to my steel and glass termite mound any time after midnight. The docklands precinct is possibly even worse. It’s cold bleak and windswept and utterly lacking in anything resembling a human space and poorly serviced by public transport. And has the world’s second most stupid Ferris wheel presiding over it. That said, Melbourne’s older inner suburbs and CBD are truly beautiful. Broad tree-lined streets, classic architecture and gorgeous parks. Our state governments and councils need to look around and see the parts of our city that work and stip receiving paper bags stuffed full of money for rubber stamping permits. And I’ll end this little rant by describing what really triggered it in the first place. The Eureka tower, which until fairly recently was not just Australia’s but also the world’s tallest residential apartment block has a 24 hour convenience store at its foot. For months on my way to work in the mornings I saw two teenage homeless girls and their dog camping there while nearly a hundred floors above them was one of the most expensive penthouse apartments in the southern hemisphere. To me it served as a sort of living bar graph describing the disparity in wealth distribution in the modern world. I am far from a bleeding heart lefty but I feel that there’s a certain point where the gap between the haves and the have nots becomes a danger with regards to social cohesion. We crossed that point sometime in the early 90’s. anyway, rant ended, time for bed…
@ and yet I have marched in support of wage increases for nurses on multiple occasions over the decades and nothing would make me happier than to see the people who do all the heavy lifting for society earn better wages. Did you mate? Or were you too busy stepping over the homeless teenagers camped out the front of the 24 hour convenience store to buy a fresh pack of Winnie blues before hurrying back to your laptop to post disparaging comments on people that you know nothing about? The reason that I notice things like that is because in my early 20’s I travelled and did volunteer work in India and Nepal for two years. I’m 55 now mate and the reason I got to work on tower cranes was about 35 years of waking up at 4.30 am and not just busting my arse but frequently risking my life too. Just try refuelling a favco tower crane or landing a pump head 85 floors above Lonsdale st when the winds blowing at 20.mts/second. O also did about 15 years of FIFO in the outback. Not that it particularly matters to you by the looks of it but I earn my money mate. An average week is somewhere between 60 to 70 hours. This has had its own personal costs btw. I have separated from women that I deeply loved, not been able to be by their side when family members have died and missed the chance to see nirvana perform at the Palace in St Kilda! I’m also humble and respectful of others so I don’t judge you for being a male nurse mate. If your ever changing my bedpan, rest assured I will thank you respectfully for performing such an odious task without once being so tactless as to mention your annual salary at all, let alone completely out of the blue in response to a comment I posted almost a year ago that I had completely forgotten about. 300k/annum doesn’t come anywhere near being able to buy the penthouse in the Eureka building…. now please go away…
@@jcramond73 Yes that's the classic response isn't it. I'm the one being naive for not doing 'my' research, not that you're misguided and need to believe in conspiracy theories.
@@banger181 Than may I suggest, before you tell someone to "put on their tin foil hat" perhaps you might think twice and do research it, maybe then you will understand my initial comment. Until then, you are misguided, but I won't tell you to put on a tin foil hat, that is your opinion and you have a right to say that.
I think the fact that labour is expensive in Australia especially in construction, these projects are bound to be extremely expensive. There definitely has to be a huge need for the infrastructure in order for the government to justify the price tag
I think they should be completed as they move Australia ahead in advanced transport networks, state of the art power systems and is a good development of infrastructure. Just employ more competent accountants, engineers and project managers to keep all facets of each project on track and within forecasted budgets. We also needs governments to look beyond their natural 4 year term.
Regardless of cost blow-outs, most projects in Australia will be completed if they have been started. All of the rail projects mentioned are well past being cancelled. The Sydney West Airport development is too far along and contains many other factors such as industrial hubs and new roads already built. The terminal is already massive. If it hasn't been started then it is never certain.
Uknowns can't be budgeted. Australia needs to become a safe-to-fail culture instead of catastrophizing everything. We know these types of projects are expensive, we know budgets will increase and timeframes will extend. Regardless of the cost, we must become sustainable for energy and transport now. We have already shirked responsibility for 2 generations. The longer sustainability is delayed, the more it will cost. It's now or never. Mega Project Managers and funders need community support. No more time left to nitpick and bully. For Australia to reach 100% sustainability in less than a decade we must all be all in. We can no longer afford to delay. Melb is 2.2% celcius over the long term average. We are entering system collapse. It's now or never.
The state govs do not run or build the projects. They come up with an objective devise a plan and bring it to tender; within a budget. Normally from listening to public. All those projects are designed to improve our lives. Except the NT solar farm
My company has been doing the Melbourne metro the past few years and isn’t stopping until completion it won’t be shut down, got a lot done and will connecting the rail to Melbourne airport.
You should do one for the Philippines too! They’re having a massive upgrade in their infrastructures including a subway, 2 new eco-friendly mega cities, bridges, 2 new international airports and highways.
Asian and Middle East are mostly corrupt , they are dragging us into that standard here too, I will not buy anything built in the last 15 years in Australia, it’s all a razzle dazzle slice of stainless steel, plastic , silicon and rushed compliance, the Government don’t care because they’ll be gone
The Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is a rebuild of an already failed project The Outer Circle Line. Built between 1891 and 1897 to do the exact same thing to get people around the city without going through the middle. It was built, operated for 6 years and then abandoned piecemeal until nothing is left by 1949, because it was not even covering operating costs, because very few people found it useful. Low density locations along the line and excessive total travel times that could be bypassed by going through the city in a more direct manner or using a car. The SRL is exactly the same, the locations are circling around and far away from the Central Business District (CBD, called downtown in USA) where low density development does not support public transit efficiency, long travel time to most destinations better served by direct routes and lack of high density activity centers (all in the CBD, arts centres/centers, sports stadiums, office buildings). The few larger high density development areas (probably only 6 areas maximum, Chadstone Shopping Centre, Southland, Box Hill shopping/high rise and hospital area, are the only that readily come to mind), such as large shopping districts, high rise development areas and recreations facilities are few and dispersed. Certainly doomed to failure to expand the use of public transit and be a positive payback, even at $33 Billion and certainly for the more likely total of $44-$60 Billion) end it the same fate as the Outer Circle Line. Yet, like the Snowy Hydro 2 Project, doomed to happen because of political boondoogles beneficiaries (large construction companies) are a wellspring of campaign monies and vote getting.
If the trains can support bicycles (inc those with trailers), and one day transport mini EV pod cars, it should reduce ring road usage by allowing transit without needing everyone to go via the CBD when many times you want to travel laterally nearby. We need to invest now, the city is going to continue to grow. We either invest now, or be stuck in traffic jams for another 4 decades, again.
this is an okay video but there are A LOT of errors in the suburban rail loop which is totally understandable as it's highly controversial and hard to find credible infomation. 1. the PBO report was done by the opposition and done to make it as expensive as possible. the 133B dollars is the cost to build east AND north, AND have it run for 40 years, 133B is total costs of the suburban rail loop by 2080, not the cost to build the first stage. The first stage, the one which everyone is focused on will cost only 35B dollars according to the same report, which is VERY similar to the government's estimated 33B. Also the PBO is VERY unreliable and they weren't given many resources to test if the estimates were trtue, the opposition just wanted them to plug some numbers into a calculator to help with their campaign to can the project, which has failed twice now. 2. the opposition lost the election in 2022, the next election will be in 2026 and it is unclear wether the opposition will suppoirt or reject it in the next election, given that in 2026 there will literally be tunnel boring machines in the ground creating the tunnels. 3. Melbourne isn't really "risking it all", by 2050 melbourne will have 8 million residents, and it's laughable to suggest that a city of 8M people SHOULDN'T have an orbital rail line. I have a suspicion you've used AI to make this video but AI is unreliable
Melbourne needs these projects. It has been underfunded for too long. We need to become environmentally sustainable; public transport upgrades and wind energy are essential to that. Cost increases and delays are a natural part of unique projects, it doesn't help to catastrophise improved clarity in planning. Sun Cable is an amazing project and should be easy to fund by tapping superannuation funds. Coupled with molten salt batteries, it could potentially power Australia through 100% renewables should Singapore not commit to a justifiable contract.
Melbourne has stolen the rest of Victoria's funds for too long and wasted it on overpriced projects which always run massively overbudget and overtime. These projects (as well as poor governance) has left the state hugely in debt and the regions have nothing to show for it but debt incurred by Melbourne. Sun Cable is a scam and none of my super should be used to fund the ridiculous people involved in it. The regions should break away from Melbourne and leave the communist hellhole to its financial and morally bankrupt future.
I'm currently working on snowy 2.0. I'm not sure it will ever be finished tbh. I've also worked on two other mega construction jobs here. Barrow Island and Wheatstone.
Why would we build a solar plant in a place that has the least amount of our citizens, to supply another country, when we haven’t done it for OUR country?!
Right of the bat I can say the tallest skyscraper-to-be in the Shoutern Hemisphere is currently under construction in Balnerário Camboriú, Brazil. The Senna Tower will be over 500m, but the final height hasn't been disclosed yet. (Some go as far as saying it'll be the tallest residential building in the world, but I'm not sure if that checks.)
As an Aussie, we deal with very costly power bills, my blood almost boiled when you said a giant solar farm will feed power to Singapore. What about us?
Well a problem with renewable power in Victoria is that when the windmills are build and ready to be connected there is nothing to connect then to. The farmers won't allow the power lines to cross their land. Yet they all use electricity but will only allow small power lines that is enough for them selves.
You do know those solar, battery storage and windmills farms are meant to lower people's power bills right? As someone who actually has solar panels and a battery. I pretty much pay nothing for my power bill because of it.😎
Now that would be a huge project. On the other hand, it could be argued there is a need because Sydney (unlike Melbourne) is fast running out of space to expand into.
Agreed, great idea. If the development included hydro dams while engineering the mountains, and potentially pulled the high speed rail out to the western plains where land is cheap, empty, and it can run in straightish lines townsville through Brisbane and Melbourne (the Japanese fast train experts on Tube emphasize to achive fast speeds the fast train lines MUST be as straight as possible), then this would significantly increase the business value for the investment. Australia's centre may become much wetter as temperatures increase, the additional central nsw/qld agricultural outputs could then be trained to coast, slashing carbon and road-maintenance costs caused by trucking. Great idea, Sydney is landlocked. Melb can stretch to Perth or Townsville. We need maximum cities inland producing maximum sewerage to fertilize deserts so they can again support forests. It will be almost impossible to avoid extinction unless we increase carbon sequestration 1,000s fold. Central Australia must be connected to the east coast to do this.
Not the Sydney ones. With the exception of the Western Metro to Parramatta. That project will take a few years to complete. The NW Metro extension through the city is due to open in August this year. And they recently announced that an extension of the Parramatta light rail to Olympic Park will go ahead
The Sydney international airport has been also confirmed to be the most chemically toxic place near human settlements, thats why they are putting a rush on the project now, they can't argue about it, the old airport needs a really deep clean.
I'm chewing on the numbers. You say the Snowy project supply 4500 GWh. You also say the A-A Power Link in the NT can transmit 6.5GW. Unless GWh and GW are vastly different, it seems the A-A Link is less economical than the Snowy. (I'm not an engineer).
I'm also no engineer. But my understanding is that the Snowy Project acts like a giant battery so it's GWH measure would refer to the maximum electricity storage capacity. Whereas the NT power link acts like a giant generator so the GW measure would refer to the electricity throughput at any moment in time.
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@@XBaAu For starters, not all comments need to deliver value to other viewers, sometimes they can just be a comment. But since you made the comment about value I'd love to know exactly what value your comment delivered to any viewers of this feed? I know you are trying to say that I lack charisma, but you made it sound like I have so much charisma that it rubs off on those I interact with - However, your comment is clear evidence to the contrary. Finally, I'd like to point out how pathetic it is to think you can analyse a person from a 12 word comment. This is not even a good attempt at trolling.
The Main reason these projects go WAY over budget in Australia is due to the attitude of some Companies and Unions. Iv done inspections on some of these projects and Its a very Very relaxed industry, to the point they only use certain people they can trust to drag out the project. The standby times for these project workers is Utterly Unbelievable. Its actually embarrassing to watch and be apart of, While on site Iv been TOLD there's no hurry and have been left waiting for 4 hours to do a 30min job plus the 1hr (over the top) induction. These companies seem to think because the Government is funding the project, They can draw it out due to the fact its an unbankruptable source of money. Unions continually interrupt projects due to ridiculous stop work weather conditions and pay disputes, despite them getting paid for 8+hrs a day when actually doing nothing in some cases. Unions are the cause of Australia's car manufacturing industry to vanish. These Projects will go the same way.
Yeah. Unions are terrible. That's why we have the highest minimum wage in the world. Unions actually a hell of a lot better than they used to be, they are aware now now that projects disappear if they get too needy. And vehicle manufacturers that were more focussed on Government Subsidies than making good vehicles was what killed the Australian Car industry. Try and find a happy owner of a Holden Cruze... Parts for that car were being imported from their US subsidised plant, despite being cheaper to make here. General Motors is now practically Chinese.
@charliepyle1626 100k a year to stand in the blistering sun and deal with lunatics too concerned with what's on their phone rather than paying attention their surroundings. Sounds like fair compensation.
@@charliepyle1626 Dont get me going on the Road Works, Same SH#@ the Government is paying so why not milk the Tax payer. All Tax paying projects need to be caped regardless if a simple hole in the road or a major train tunnel. If the company I work for decided to double our quote for a job, We'd be out of business in a week.
The Melbourne SRL is a great concept, but never have I ever needed to travel via the proposed route. But I might want to after its built! I would rather have a mini underground light rail A-B sections in multiple hotspots. Like Brunswick - Fitzroy - Abbotsford - South Yarra
As someone who needs to use a wheelchair and have stayed at the women and Children’s Hospital. It’s good news to get an overhaul. The beautiful old building will stand. Thankfully they put the new one somewhere else, but it definitely was 18th century tech and access that’s for sure I was actually thinking last night they should build a massive water pipeline from Queensland to central Australia to redistribute water and I’ve always thought of a Solar farm in central Australia also. Thanks for making this video.
That thought has crossed my mind on occasion too , however , given the extreme weather oz is prone too , sometimes a lot of up north is under water due to its tropical weather , it would be good for to have pipeline going to and from all the mainland states , in australia , nearly every year there is usually floods or drought that can be in any state .
There needs to be a reason why we generate so much money. If we don't imprrove the systems we have & spend the money to do so, it'll all be a waste of everyones time
most of these project's delays have been directly related to government mismanagement and at the expense of projects which benefit a much larger percentage of the population. our government loves to spend millions on studies, investigations and inquiries into these projects only to get it all wrong and then spend more money to go through all those investigation and inquiries over again then still make a decision on political benefit over practicality or need. most of these projects are being awarded to the lowest bidder (generally an offshore conglomerate) and end up getting delays, budget over-runs and poorer quality products as a result.
Most people don't realise just how wealthy Australia is. Our natural and human wealth are so great that we can literally afford anything and everything we might want or need. All of the projects mentioned in this video have costs that are hugely below the cost of our nuclear-powered submarine fleet for the RAN and at the same time we are building a fleet of advanced fleet of new frigates, 9 of them at a cost of $1Billion each. Other specific fleets for the RAN are also being constructed or waiting for the completion of reviews before ships are selected and construction begins. There is absolutely nothing that Australia cannot afford and every politician or commentator who claims anything different is either a fool or a liar!
@@judithstrachan9399 It's not that we can't afford it but land for houses has to be available first, but it is not. To be available a lot of infrastructure has to be built first. Then builder have to be available, but they are not. This has little to nothing to do with money but with other issues and problems which are occurring throughout the world now. It is a complex and difficult problem.
There’s absolutely nothing Australia cannot afford? You gotta be kidding! How about free tertiary education? How about free health services including dental care for everyone? What about the lack of housing for tens of thousands of homeless people? What about having the highest prices for electricity in the western world? I could go on and on but I can’t afford it.
I am a migrant from Denmark. In my 45+ years here I have always said that Australia should be the richest country in the world. So many raw materials that we don't know what to do with them other than just dig them up and send it away. I have some land where I can pick up iron with a magnet. That would be mined in Denmark but here it is just a nuisance. Australian industry should be much higher developed. In stead we just put every thing on a ship and ship it away. In regards to cost of labour then a few years back I think we stopped making matches. In stead we import from Sweden - not a low labour cost country. The biggest problem is lack of investment. Most companies just want reasonably short term profit and as they can invest anywhere in the world they go for the most profitable places. To make Australia filthy rich demands Government intervention but none of the parties are strong enough to stand up to big business.
You overlooked Queensland's massive infrastructure upgrade, including $70b over a decade upgrading the electricity network and the 10-year Olympic Games program, which includes underground and surface rail, motorways, stadiums, villages and much more. Qld is booming.
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As an Aussie, most of the Australian mega projects get completed but at about ten times the original forecast prices.
Come on man are all you people all that slow do you realy think these grub government aren't taking a cut out of all these blow out projects.
Over budget and late That's just become SOP for Australia
You reckon Australia's alone there?
Just like the potato comments that love conspiracy theories below - never let the facts get in the way of some good Aussie BS.
over budget and undelivered with key features removed to reduce the cost
I live in Melbourne, the one thing that's always happening is construction, its everywhere but it always seems like it never gets done. Another topic you could talk about is the Melbourne airport train that keeps getting pushed back.
A reason for that is the influence of the CFMEU over the state government. They lobby very hard for large contradiction projects mostly as a way to have jobs for union members so they have a reason to be in the union. That’s why despite many of the skyscrapers in the cbd being unoccupied they still continue to build more even though we really don’t need them lmao
The unions and labor have sent this state broke.@@deaconmacdonald2570
A LNP government will direct more money to healthcare? Haha! Pigs may fly.
Yes, everywhere you go in Melbourne something new is being built.
If i don’t go to a certain place often, everything has changed lol.
Airport rail link is nothing but a political quagmire, a pissing contest. So no we don’t need to embarrass ourselves further to the world.
I'm a proud Aussie, but we are notorious for over budget everything
Politicians property portfolios aren't cheap where do you their getting the money from.
Happens everywhere in the world...
@@TheJimbles burj khalifa took 1 billion usd to build
@@sajjad37631 billion dollars and still no sewer system lol they literally use shit sucker trucks 😮
And you know that the companies tendering for those projects know that they really only have to get the job !
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I live in Sydney and the Sydney metro west project is going ahead after the new state government had seriously looked at canceling the project and another thing is that an additional station is likely to be built between parramatta and Sydney Olympic Park at camellia
How are construction wages? Trade unions?
As they should. Yes, it's more money than planned.....BUT honestly which people fail to understand is.
As long as the project is going to improve on something, and actually gets done or even process is made. Money isn't a problem.
No powerful country fears spending money.😎
Isn't that the suburb that supposed to be one of the most toxic in the whole of Sydney? not for social media, but actual heavy metals and industrial waste? Fun times digging that up..
Wow didn’t think little old Adelaide would be featured on this amazing channel! 😮
We’ve heard enough about Melbourne and Sydney, Adelaide’s turn!
@@randomdude2880 You go gurrl!!
At least Ben Folds wrote a song about Adelaide.
I think the south road T2D (Torrens to Darlington) tunnel projects in Adelaide should’ve been one of the mega projects on here
@@goodoldozzy5731 I will believe it when I see it done.
Awesome to see some the big projects here in Australia on your channel. I've been working on the Snowy project for over 2 years now.
Too right ❤
I thought snowy 2.0 got the boot
@@devono7230 not a chance. Way too far into it now.
At least one of the tunnel borers were bogged for around a year, and I think it’s only just started working again.
@@punkmetalbabe don’t believe everything you hear in the media, I work at that site.
This is definitely one of your standout videos-for me at least. For reasons I can’t exactly explain-and I’m a steadfast subscriber to your channel-this particular post totally grabbed my attention straight off. Something I love when it occurs.
The subject matter here captured my imagination because one doesn’t often realize how architecturally bold, aggressive, and logical Australia is being at this time. Who knew?
I found it genuinely riveting and creatively inspiring. It actually reinvigorated my sagging architectural creative mindset. I totally owe that to this very video, and believe me, it’s most appreciated.
The subject of projects in Australia captured interested me because one doesn’t often realize how architecturally bold, aggressive, and innovative Australia is being at this time.
I mean, of course, that country is historically excellent at designing and building remarkable things. However, here you perfectly presented their currently astonishing “new think” efforts on a big silver platter. Who knew? Whoa Nellie!
Good for you!
Your video just made me super jealous of the building designs coming out of Australia. Even what’s now being built in London and China are inspired eye catching concepts. However, it’s the Australian projects in your video that I find utterly logical by far because they apparently did their homework to accommodate directly how people actually live, move about, and likely may by 2030.
The parsing out and organizing of the conundrums of issues each project faces-politically, economically, socially, environmentally, their budgetary pressures, engineering challenges, fluctuating completion deadlines, and dealing with the often unforeseen-is brilliant in this video.
I badly desire by far more architectural concept overreach in the U.S. that incites passionately expressed debate and cognitive conflict. To preserve the old while building new-but not for new’s sake.
As President Kennedy said regarding our race to space: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” This thinking is vital and is the life’s blood of architectural concepts during any era-it clearly is in Australia today.
The United States needs building projects that capture the attention and excites its 333 million citizens-of all ages. As comedian Lewis Black says, “Build something f___ing big and ‘stuuu-pendous’ because-if you build it, the ‘peee-ople’ will come. Build a huge damn dam in Utah because peee-ople will pay to see that!”
Like Australia, besides highways, bridges, and train tracks, what on the grandest scale could be built in the U.S. that would be forever prominent and tap into the minds, hearts, and pride of its citizens?
To me American architects have been playing it safe (I can see the hate comments now), over the recent years. We need more big and unpredictable building and project designs that embrace evolving purposes, evolutionary sustainability, that are technically constructed for longevity. Much like the Australian projects highlighted in this TH-cam video. Shitkies, even Moscow’s rising skyscrapers behind the Kremlin are actually impressive.
Huge concepts using a CAD program are great -but there needs to be more beyond that in the U.S. What’s our next Boston “Big Dig” to build that’s tangible to everyone?
Australia, thank goodness, is doing a 180° turn, countering what’s occurring in Dubai, Hong Kong, and Miami to name a few.
I do outright dislike and dismiss entirely the macramé looking skyline that Dubai has become and sports with its parody of facades.
Worse, I much dislike entirely Dubai’s horrible urban planning that outright ignores, and is literally hostile towards, the simple tenets of “city” dynamics. Real cities, like those in Australia, prosper from the sum of their bustling neighborhood communities that are seamlessly tied together by robust rapid transit systems.
Australia clearly understands and respects how people actually live in its urban regions. Imagine had Dubai 25 years ago embraced a “mixed use” city plan, with various elevated public transit systems (it’s terrain doesn’t support underground infrastructure), with individually identifiable community hubs-what a template for the world Dubai could have been.
Upsetting, still-all the construction workers who actually built Dubai’s skyscrapers can’t afford to live in (nor reside near) that metropolis built for millionaires. They’re actually not welcome particularly the barely payed tradesmen imported from neighboring countries.
If I may digress: FYI (no joke) the Burj Khalifa in Dubai has no grey/black water sewage system running to it-it’s basically a 830 meter tall Porta Potty. All of its waste water (grey and black) literally has to be transported away from the structure by truck daily.
Dang, maybe just fill tanker cars with sewage and run them via a dedicated rail line out of the city. Couldn’t build a like running structure in Australia.
This video got me asking the question: Why on earth isn’t the United States (of all places) not currently on par with Australia architecturally speaking? Not to mention urban planning wise.
Back to this wonderful video.
It goes without saying that your usually stellar and wonderfully consistent production values are on full display here-then some.
This video doesn’t waste a word due to its tight and confidently well edited script. Its chosen plethora of pertinent information is perfectly dissected and concise. Per usual-your visually smooth, seamless, and captivating editing of each segment is excellent. And your choices of areas to highlight brought everything home to great satisfaction.
One didn’t have to mentally muddle through placing the puzzle pieces together like other such video channels do regarding this genre. This video didn’t feel boilerplate nor rudimentary-a framework it could have easily fallen into but didn’t.
I greatly appreciated your outlining the sometimes controversial and cumbersome facets that face various projects e.g. the budgeted vs. the actual project cost overruns; political tugs of war; environmental realities; foresight regarding any economic impact; and the acceptance (or lack there of) by citizens.
Finally, the only Australian project that causes me significant pause is regarding the new WSI Airport. I think its location is perfect but there’s a big “however” regarding traveler logistics-it’s about the 40 kilometer distance to and from central Sydney…
…it’s “literally” about the same distance between downtown Washington, D.C. (where I live) to the heavily used Baltimore/Washington International Airport in Maryland.
No matter if there’s a super fast bullet train on a fast track between the airport and Sydney there better be a heavy duty highway or highways built to the airport as well because passengers radiate from around the airport-not from train stations. The airport is “the” hub for everything.
At best, any train platforms would literally have to be directly under plane waiting rooms and boarding gates to be genuinely enticing-but that’s not exactly full proof logistically either.
Getting off an 8-hour flight from Hawaii to visit Aunt Sue and Uncle Henry who live south of Sydney (with luggage) presents black and white dilemmas.
Does Uncle Henry pick you up from the super busy downtown Sydney train station or from the airport? You’ve been on a long flight, have to go through customs, wait to get your luggage from the carousel, take a tram to the trains, then buy a train ticket, ride the train, then trudge through the bustling city station into the heavily congested city streets around the station, then have to face the unavoidable car ride to wherever. Then there is the option to tag and pay a taxi or schedule an Uber or Lyft ride. No matter, this opinion is very pricey and vulnerable to price gouging-particularly for tourists.
Where I am nobody uses the train that runs between the BWI Airport and D.C. Everyone gets dropped off or picked up by car at BWI-and the only way this works is with the four, wide, multiple lane primary highways that wrap around the airport. They being: I-195, MD Rt. 295, I-695 and I-97. Currently BWI only carries a quarter of the flight traffic that’s anticipated for WSI in 2030. We endure it, but the four BWI highway routes get clogged “before” both the morning and evening rush hours-and worse still-during.
I sure hope that by 2030 the WSI will be ready out of the proverbial boarding gate. Fingers crossed. But I’d start mixing that concrete to build some hefty highway to WSI starting now.
Just saying.
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Washington, D.C.
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Yes ! Go Ahead Australia- You need these mega projects!
Amazing work by the Aussies 😮
Thanks 4 sharing this.
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So we're going to power Singapore before Australia?
Not going to happen. Twiggy going hydrogen.
Brisbane upgrading its city infrastructures for the 2032 Olympics is another mega project in Oz!
I'm guessing they're considered more to be smaller projects spread over a wide area. I'm not sure the final plans have been announced yet.
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It’s taken 2 years for a 6m bridge to be built in my local suburb. It cuts off a significant road and the residents are furious as its completion has been pushed back again. I can’t imagine how long it would take for these mega projects if they can’t finish a 6 meter bridge 😂
I’m in Sydney and can confirm that the Metro is all working and is very fast
I live in sydney. It's surreal how close this video is too government ads. Most of these projects don't get built due to constant privatisation. If we had a decent ministry of public building works and infrastructure, maybe we could actually do all this stuff
Yeah Socialist govts always have efficient public works 😂
Privatisation should work if local infrastructure is owned by locals, eg unions, superfunds, members-owned co-op banks, which have synergetic interests to keep revenues and profits in the local community, and to invest in ongoing maintenance to keep infrastructure safe. Privatisation to foreign entities rips profit, jobs, revenues out of local economies, pushing up prices while gouging wages. Privatisation to foreign owners including ASX shares, should be banned, for all Australian critical imfrastructure. It is not socially sustainable for offshore investors to erode the local economy.
Looks amazing can’t wait to have a coffee at Southbank.
It may be good if you live there. Living in the outskirts of Melbourne even with lots of road building, tunnel building etc. then I prefer to stay far away. The traffic is bad and has only gotten worse the last 45 years that I have lived here. Melbourne is a flat city that covers a lot of land. Most people live on the ground floor. Some 4 t0 8 story buildings in the inner suburbs like in most European big cities would be better I think.
Looks like Australia is working on some gigantic projects indeed!
Don't get too excited, Australia will cancel major projects due things like one tree frog being displaced from a muddy ditch. We have green terrorists in our government who will happily stop a project that can benefit all for some pathetic reason. We of all countries should be building nuclear energy in our vast barren country, not some ineffective wind farms that are maintenance heavy & expensive to run.
The photos shown around 07:35 are not of Badgery's Creek. They are old photos of the existing airport at Mascot.
I am an Australian resident who migrated from China years ago. One thing I find puzzling is why China can construct monumental projects, such as the Baihetan Hydropower Station-the second largest in the world-in just five years (2017-2022), or build hundreds of kilometers of metro subway systems in 5-8 years across many major cities. Meanwhile, in Australia, even much smaller projects often take several times longer to complete and exceed their budgets.
What confuses me even more is that while people frequently complain about these delays and cost overruns, no serious corrective actions seem to follow. In China, such inefficiency might be viewed as a major red flag, potentially indicating severe corruption, whereas here, it often becomes the subject of jokes and resigned acceptance.
China undoubtedly faces many intolerable issues, but its ability to execute large-scale infrastructure projects efficiently serves as a stark benchmark. It should prompt democratic countries to reflect on how much more effective things could be if systemic inefficiencies were addressed.
Could have something to do with the amount of people that live in China as well, more man power = faster results and China would also have a lot more money than Australia
Very informative film work, many thanks!
The solar farms should be powering OZ and not send it overseas we have some of the most expensive power prices in the world so stupid. But that's Australia gov for ya .
For the government that’s a win win, charge the peasants a kings ransom for power, and also sell power overseas to make even more money.
These revenues will be used by Grok Vemtures to invest in other sustainable energy projects in Australia. It uses cheap land and a simple, single-direction link to reduce costs, for proportionately high returns. More capital to invest early, earned from Singapore's strong dollars, delivers capital to Australian investors to fund even more projects locally. Instead of foreign investors buying our critical infrastructure projects and pushing our prices up to cover thier profits, Sun Cable uses the reverse. Singapore's payments to us will lower the amount we as a nation need to spend for the switch to 100% renewables.
Why is it that we have a foreign project supplying power to another country but our government says we cannot do the same for Australians. We sell gas projects using a technology banned in Australia but we then give this resource to a foreign company and allow fracking in an area where we have a part of the great artesian basin. We will be facing some huge potential pollution problems that Australia will be forced to fix. So many of these projects are subject to corruption and poor compliance to environmental and other obligations.
I agree, FIRB should be held accountable...australian citizens the people and taxpayers needs should be a priority included in the deals... but I love the concept of these projects....forward thinking. Also if all government buildings were equipped and solar powered that would reduce the maintenance costs of gvt buildings....which would end up costing less to taxpayers..... just thinking out loud!
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As you may or may not be looking for other projects, the Province of Saskatchewan has some large projects coming in the near future. New Downtown Event Centre including a new and larger arena for sporting event like the local WHL team The Blades and NLL team The Rush, and bigger concert venues. A new library is being built downtown as well. A brand new Bus Rapid Transit System is being included as well to help with transporting locals and visitors in and out of the downtown area and more. With the booming economy of Saskatchewan, even more possible large, even mega projects could be in the works. Hope to see it in your videos one day.
I am impressed and glad to see other cities creating a new vibrancy with imaginative projects!!
@@billyates112 not only that but the city has hired one of the best project planners in the world to oversee the project, they have designed successful downtown event center all over the world.
Crikey! I didnt know my country had all these megaprojects
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100Billion for 100km of metro railways.. i think theyre better off investing that in something else lol
They did -- -- $600billion in three [nuke] submarines -- they have more dollars than sense!
But how would the governments friends make money?
What? More money on roads to create more traffic and pollution?
We are too far into it now.
Nothing great in life normally doesn't go to plan, and nothing great comes easy or cheap either sadly.
If the project is going to improve on something, money isn't a problem.
Why do you think America is considered to be the strongest country in the world? Wild guess, it's because their government and people don't fear spending money.
@@stephenpercy4643 It’s $368 billion, for current and “next generation” submarines, under AUKUS.
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Impressive work. Thank you. Also thanks for using metric.
Not a single project that is either on time or within budget..
To be fair, it sounds to me like it's very normal for large projects to go over-budget.
@@fishofgold6553 I understand. Here in India, there are very few projects that are completed within budget. But I expected that things would be different in Australia.
That's because government grubs are getting cuts out of all these projects they sign.@@fishofgold6553
Here in Western Australia we've built a new Stadium and Childrens Hospital, both worth over a billion Dollars each, on time and within budget. Anything involving a tunnel always has cost blowouts. And anything involving the Military, because all Military Contractors are used to fleecing the American Government, who hands out money like candy at Halloween.
@@tsubadaikhan6332 "...all Military Contractors are used to fleecing the American Government, who hands out money like candy at Halloween."
Yeah, recently I've heard that this is a major cause of cost blowouts and a valid reason to say that public-private partnerships are a scam. Government should hold the superior position in such contracts and be able to sue the private partner for breach of contract if the private entity stubbornly slows the project and tries to squeeze more money out of it.
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Star of the South sounds like a truly exciting project! 🤩
Be a hostile environment (site)
It will harm the marine environment. Its fake green and we have sun for solar.
Better keep the wind blowing then I suppose
Previous comment was removed. Anyway ask the local marine life if they are exited about their new neighbors.
The upkeep and maintenance will be massively expensive!
I'm not optimistic on its long tPerm viability.
Southbank in Melbourne is more like A collection of concrete and glass termite mounds than a place humans would want to live. I should know, I worked as a tower crane dog man on many of these buildings. These towers plunge straight down to the traffic nightmare that is city road with a thin strip of bitumen footpath on either side of it. There are no trees, no cafes, no pubs. The “entertainment precinct” adjacent to it is a casino and a series of overpriced restaurants that all face onto the Yarra river but present nothing but a series of entrances to underground car park entrances towards Southbank and that I would feel extremely uncomfortable walking home to my steel and glass termite mound any time after midnight. The docklands precinct is possibly even worse. It’s cold bleak and windswept and utterly lacking in anything resembling a human space and poorly serviced by public transport. And has the world’s second most stupid Ferris wheel presiding over it. That said, Melbourne’s older inner suburbs and CBD are truly beautiful. Broad tree-lined streets, classic architecture and gorgeous parks. Our state governments and councils need to look around and see the parts of our city that work and stip receiving paper bags stuffed full of money for rubber stamping permits.
And I’ll end this little rant by describing what really triggered it in the first place. The Eureka tower, which until fairly recently was not just Australia’s but also the world’s tallest residential apartment block has a 24 hour convenience store at its foot. For months on my way to work in the mornings I saw two teenage homeless girls and their dog camping there while nearly a hundred floors above them was one of the most expensive penthouse apartments in the southern hemisphere. To me it served as a sort of living bar graph describing the disparity in wealth distribution in the modern world. I am far from a bleeding heart lefty but I feel that there’s a certain point where the gap between the haves and the have nots becomes a danger with regards to social cohesion. We crossed that point sometime in the early 90’s. anyway, rant ended, time for bed…
welll if the climate change cult followers of melbourne stopped voting for Marxist politicians, you might one day see decent projects happen
Well said.
Says the guy earning 300k per year when a nurse earns 50....
@ and yet I have marched in support of wage increases for nurses on multiple occasions over the decades and nothing would make me happier than to see the people who do all the heavy lifting for society earn better wages. Did you mate? Or were you too busy stepping over the homeless teenagers camped out the front of the 24 hour convenience store to buy a fresh pack of Winnie blues before hurrying back to your laptop to post disparaging comments on people that you know nothing about? The reason that I notice things like that is because in my early 20’s I travelled and did volunteer work in India and Nepal for two years. I’m 55 now mate and the reason I got to work on tower cranes was about 35 years of waking up at 4.30 am and not just busting my arse but frequently risking my life too. Just try refuelling a favco tower crane or landing a pump head 85 floors above Lonsdale st when the winds blowing at 20.mts/second. O also did about 15 years of FIFO in the outback. Not that it particularly matters to you by the looks of it but I earn my money mate. An average week is somewhere between 60 to 70 hours. This has had its own personal costs btw. I have separated from women that I deeply loved, not been able to be by their side when family members have died and missed the chance to see nirvana perform at the Palace in St Kilda! I’m also humble and respectful of others so I don’t judge you for being a male nurse mate. If your ever changing my bedpan, rest assured I will thank you respectfully for performing such an odious task without once being so tactless as to mention your annual salary at all, let alone completely out of the blue in response to a comment I posted almost a year ago that I had completely forgotten about. 300k/annum doesn’t come anywhere near being able to buy the penthouse in the Eureka building…. now please go away…
Fear fear fear
5 minute cities are a sinister test run for 15 minute cities.
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@@banger181 Do your own research, you will find the truth soon enough.
@@jcramond73 Yes that's the classic response isn't it. I'm the one being naive for not doing 'my' research, not that you're misguided and need to believe in conspiracy theories.
Yep.
@@banger181 Than may I suggest, before you tell someone to "put on their tin foil hat" perhaps you might think twice and do research it, maybe then you will understand my initial comment. Until then, you are misguided, but I won't tell you to put on a tin foil hat, that is your opinion and you have a right to say that.
We went from the world's food bowl to the world power bulb
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I think the fact that labour is expensive in Australia especially in construction, these projects are bound to be extremely expensive. There definitely has to be a huge need for the infrastructure in order for the government to justify the price tag
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So Brisbane not mentioned in any major infrastructure projects and we have the Olympics in 2032?
Who cares about QLD lol
I think they should be completed as they move Australia ahead in advanced transport networks, state of the art power systems and is a good development of infrastructure. Just employ more competent accountants, engineers and project managers to keep all facets of each project on track and within forecasted budgets. We also needs governments to look beyond their natural 4 year term.
Regardless of cost blow-outs, most projects in Australia will be completed if they have been started. All of the rail projects mentioned are well past being cancelled. The Sydney West Airport development is too far along and contains many other factors such as industrial hubs and new roads already built. The terminal is already massive. If it hasn't been started then it is never certain.
Uknowns can't be budgeted. Australia needs to become a safe-to-fail culture instead of catastrophizing everything. We know these types of projects are expensive, we know budgets will increase and timeframes will extend. Regardless of the cost, we must become sustainable for energy and transport now. We have already shirked responsibility for 2 generations. The longer sustainability is delayed, the more it will cost. It's now or never. Mega Project Managers and funders need community support. No more time left to nitpick and bully. For Australia to reach 100% sustainability in less than a decade we must all be all in. We can no longer afford to delay. Melb is 2.2% celcius over the long term average. We are entering system collapse. It's now or never.
I live here in Queensland and I didn’t know about most of these.
Entirely missing is Perth's $10.5billion Metronet rail project.
Wow, this video really highlights how unproductive our government is, with so many of these projects being delayed!
The state govs do not run or build the projects. They come up with an objective devise a plan and bring it to tender; within a budget. Normally from listening to public. All those projects are designed to improve our lives. Except the NT solar farm
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why no Brisbane projects here? Queens Wharf, Cross River Rail, Waterfront Brisbane, Brisbane Arena
I agree!!
You left out the unnecessary rail tunnel under Brisbane CBD which is really intended to feed more suckers into the new Star Casino.
My company has been doing the Melbourne metro the past few years and isn’t stopping until completion it won’t be shut down, got a lot done and will connecting the rail to Melbourne airport.
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You should do one for the Philippines too! They’re having a massive upgrade in their infrastructures including a subway, 2 new eco-friendly mega cities, bridges, 2 new international airports and highways.
Asian and Middle East are mostly corrupt , they are dragging us into that standard here too, I will not buy anything built in the last 15 years in Australia, it’s all a razzle dazzle slice of stainless steel, plastic , silicon and rushed compliance, the Government don’t care because they’ll be gone
The Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is a rebuild of an already failed project The Outer Circle Line. Built between 1891 and 1897 to do the exact same thing to get people around the city without going through the middle. It was built, operated for 6 years and then abandoned piecemeal until nothing is left by 1949, because it was not even covering operating costs, because very few people found it useful. Low density locations along the line and excessive total travel times that could be bypassed by going through the city in a more direct manner or using a car. The SRL is exactly the same, the locations are circling around and far away from the Central Business District (CBD, called downtown in USA) where low density development does not support public transit efficiency, long travel time to most destinations better served by direct routes and lack of high density activity centers (all in the CBD, arts centres/centers, sports stadiums, office buildings). The few larger high density development areas (probably only 6 areas maximum, Chadstone Shopping Centre, Southland, Box Hill shopping/high rise and hospital area, are the only that readily come to mind), such as large shopping districts, high rise development areas and recreations facilities are few and dispersed. Certainly doomed to failure to expand the use of public transit and be a positive payback, even at $33 Billion and certainly for the more likely total of $44-$60 Billion) end it the same fate as the Outer Circle Line. Yet, like the Snowy Hydro 2 Project, doomed to happen because of political boondoogles beneficiaries (large construction companies) are a wellspring of campaign monies and vote getting.
If the trains can support bicycles (inc those with trailers), and one day transport mini EV pod cars, it should reduce ring road usage by allowing transit without needing everyone to go via the CBD when many times you want to travel laterally nearby. We need to invest now, the city is going to continue to grow. We either invest now, or be stuck in traffic jams for another 4 decades, again.
this is an okay video but there are A LOT of errors in the suburban rail loop which is totally understandable as it's highly controversial and hard to find credible infomation.
1. the PBO report was done by the opposition and done to make it as expensive as possible. the 133B dollars is the cost to build east AND north, AND have it run for 40 years, 133B is total costs of the suburban rail loop by 2080, not the cost to build the first stage. The first stage, the one which everyone is focused on will cost only 35B dollars according to the same report, which is VERY similar to the government's estimated 33B. Also the PBO is VERY unreliable and they weren't given many resources to test if the estimates were trtue, the opposition just wanted them to plug some numbers into a calculator to help with their campaign to can the project, which has failed twice now.
2. the opposition lost the election in 2022, the next election will be in 2026 and it is unclear wether the opposition will suppoirt or reject it in the next election, given that in 2026 there will literally be tunnel boring machines in the ground creating the tunnels.
3. Melbourne isn't really "risking it all", by 2050 melbourne will have 8 million residents, and it's laughable to suggest that a city of 8M people SHOULDN'T have an orbital rail line.
I have a suspicion you've used AI to make this video but AI is unreliable
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Yes its disgusting.
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I thought that the Middle East were the ones with the insane mega projects and I never thought Australia would do the same 🤔
We're not a back water, mate ; )
please help to clear up the winton solar power project in victoria...is it up and running, is viable
A massive congratulations from me. I think i subscribed last year.
No Brisbane Olympics upgrades, Second Bruce Highway, Cross River rail, Coomera connector or H2-Hub. QLD obviously not part of Australia
Melbourne needs these projects. It has been underfunded for too long. We need to become environmentally sustainable; public transport upgrades and wind energy are essential to that. Cost increases and delays are a natural part of unique projects, it doesn't help to catastrophise improved clarity in planning.
Sun Cable is an amazing project and should be easy to fund by tapping superannuation funds. Coupled with molten salt batteries, it could potentially power Australia through 100% renewables should Singapore not commit to a justifiable contract.
Melbourne has stolen the rest of Victoria's funds for too long and wasted it on overpriced projects which always run massively overbudget and overtime. These projects (as well as poor governance) has left the state hugely in debt and the regions have nothing to show for it but debt incurred by Melbourne.
Sun Cable is a scam and none of my super should be used to fund the ridiculous people involved in it.
The regions should break away from Melbourne and leave the communist hellhole to its financial and morally bankrupt future.
Who edit your videos it's literally amazing
I really hope the SRL goes ahead, we really need this in Melbourne, especially for such a fast growing city
I'm currently working on snowy 2.0. I'm not sure it will ever be finished tbh. I've also worked on two other mega construction jobs here. Barrow Island and Wheatstone.
When you said "of the coast of Melbourne " I thought you meant Port Phillip Bay and not hundreds of kilometres away in eastern Bass Strait.
cant wait to see them all destroyed by the utterly unpredictable Bass straight
What about the new port on an artificial island in Perth?
8:40 fyi, that’s not really off the coast from Melbourne.
That’s like saying it’s off the coast of NYC when it’s in Washington
Yea lol
Can't wait until this shows up in his other series.
i am actually hungry. they should invest in making sure hard working people don't go without food.
Why would we build a solar plant in a place that has the least amount of our citizens, to supply another country, when we haven’t done it for OUR country?!
Profit?
Right of the bat I can say the tallest skyscraper-to-be in the Shoutern Hemisphere is currently under construction in Balnerário Camboriú, Brazil. The Senna Tower will be over 500m, but the final height hasn't been disclosed yet. (Some go as far as saying it'll be the tallest residential building in the world, but I'm not sure if that checks.)
As an Aussie, we deal with very costly power bills, my blood almost boiled when you said a giant solar farm will feed power to Singapore. What about us?
Well a problem with renewable power in Victoria is that when the windmills are build and ready to be connected there is nothing to connect then to. The farmers won't allow the power lines to cross their land. Yet they all use electricity but will only allow small power lines that is enough for them selves.
@@leonhardtkristensen4093 Bury the power lines ,yes it costs more but everyone wins in the end.
@@leonhardtkristensen4093 have proper power stations instead of marxist climate change windmills. Problem solved
You do know those solar, battery storage and windmills farms are meant to lower people's power bills right?
As someone who actually has solar panels and a battery. I pretty much pay nothing for my power bill because of it.😎
Selling electricity to Singapore will bring in consistent and indefinite income to the country, I support it.
Could you make a video about the United Kingdom? Are there any big projects happening there?
Can the solar farm panels sense Hail storms and automatically turn the panels down? Will be a very expensive repair and power outs.
You know that the middle of Australia is essentially a desert yeah……
@@andrew_l1900 Also most panels can handle Hail storms.
Now all we need is a tunnel under the blue mountains in NSW to open up the central west township of Bathurst. Mudgee Orange
Now that would be a huge project. On the other hand, it could be argued there is a need because Sydney (unlike Melbourne) is fast running out of space to expand into.
Agreed, great idea. If the development included hydro dams while engineering the mountains, and potentially pulled the high speed rail out to the western plains where land is cheap, empty, and it can run in straightish lines townsville through Brisbane and Melbourne (the Japanese fast train experts on Tube emphasize to achive fast speeds the fast train lines MUST be as straight as possible), then this would significantly increase the business value for the investment. Australia's centre may become much wetter as temperatures increase, the additional central nsw/qld agricultural outputs could then be trained to coast, slashing carbon and road-maintenance costs caused by trucking. Great idea, Sydney is landlocked. Melb can stretch to Perth or Townsville. We need maximum cities inland producing maximum sewerage to fertilize deserts so they can again support forests. It will be almost impossible to avoid extinction unless we increase carbon sequestration 1,000s fold. Central Australia must be connected to the east coast to do this.
@@canwelook build up
Melbourne really needs to go above 600m
Melbourne really need to go below sea level.
The only take away is that all these projects have delays and will take 30 years to complete
Not the Sydney ones. With the exception of the Western Metro to Parramatta. That project will take a few years to complete. The NW Metro extension through the city is due to open in August this year. And they recently announced that an extension of the Parramatta light rail to Olympic Park will go ahead
Can’t believe this guy didn’t include the Australian NBN. It’s never quite reached its goal. It’s probably cost the government the most lol 😂
The Sydney international airport has been also confirmed to be the most chemically toxic place near human settlements, thats why they are putting a rush on the project now, they can't argue about it, the old airport needs a really deep clean.
I'm chewing on the numbers.
You say the Snowy project supply 4500 GWh.
You also say the A-A Power Link in the NT can transmit 6.5GW.
Unless GWh and GW are vastly different, it seems the A-A Link is less economical than the Snowy.
(I'm not an engineer).
I'm also no engineer. But my understanding is that the Snowy Project acts like a giant battery so it's GWH measure would refer to the maximum electricity storage capacity. Whereas the NT power link acts like a giant generator so the GW measure would refer to the electricity throughput at any moment in time.
There is a South Bank in Brisbane.
That's what I thought when I saw the comment!
Haha cool. I work for Project 9, Square Kilometre Array. 🥳
I’ve gone on the Sydney metro before, and it’s definitely safer than the normal trains
You missed the mega new rail system getting built in Brisbane. Includes 2 tunnels under the river and new staions etc.. it's a giant project!
Can you make similar video for UK next. Thanks
Yes we will probably do one in the future :)
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Best thing I did was move away from Melbourne - Horrible place.
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@@XBaAu For starters, not all comments need to deliver value to other viewers, sometimes they can just be a comment.
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I know you are trying to say that I lack charisma, but you made it sound like I have so much charisma that it rubs off on those I interact with - However, your comment is clear evidence to the contrary.
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The Main reason these projects go WAY over budget in Australia is due to the attitude of some Companies and Unions. Iv done inspections on some of these projects and Its a very Very relaxed industry, to the point they only use certain people they can trust to drag out the project. The standby times for these project workers is Utterly Unbelievable. Its actually embarrassing to watch and be apart of, While on site Iv been TOLD there's no hurry and have been left waiting for 4 hours to do a 30min job plus the 1hr (over the top) induction. These companies seem to think because the Government is funding the project, They can draw it out due to the fact its an unbankruptable source of money. Unions continually interrupt projects due to ridiculous stop work weather conditions and pay disputes, despite them getting paid for 8+hrs a day when actually doing nothing in some cases. Unions are the cause of Australia's car manufacturing industry to vanish. These Projects will go the same way.
Yeah. Unions are terrible. That's why we have the highest minimum wage in the world. Unions actually a hell of a lot better than they used to be, they are aware now now that projects disappear if they get too needy. And vehicle manufacturers that were more focussed on Government Subsidies than making good vehicles was what killed the Australian Car industry. Try and find a happy owner of a Holden Cruze... Parts for that car were being imported from their US subsidised plant, despite being cheaper to make here. General Motors is now practically Chinese.
over 100k for a stop go man, 120k for construction worker. Its a joke
@charliepyle1626 100k a year to stand in the blistering sun and deal with lunatics too concerned with what's on their phone rather than paying attention their surroundings. Sounds like fair compensation.
Oh no, the horror of *check notes*
Worker's protections and general safety
@@charliepyle1626 Dont get me going on the Road Works, Same SH#@ the Government is paying so why not milk the Tax payer. All Tax paying projects need to be caped regardless if a simple hole in the road or a major train tunnel. If the company I work for decided to double our quote for a job, We'd be out of business in a week.
The Melbourne SRL is a great concept, but never have I ever needed to travel via the proposed route. But I might want to after its built! I would rather have a mini underground light rail A-B sections in multiple hotspots. Like Brunswick - Fitzroy - Abbotsford - South Yarra
Like if you saw the bird crash into the water in front of Parliament House not once, but twice 😂
As someone who needs to use a wheelchair and have stayed at the women and Children’s Hospital. It’s good news to get an overhaul. The beautiful old building will stand. Thankfully they put the new one somewhere else, but it definitely was 18th century tech and access that’s for sure
I was actually thinking last night they should build a massive water pipeline from Queensland to central Australia to redistribute water and I’ve always thought of a Solar farm in central Australia also. Thanks for making this video.
That thought has crossed my mind on occasion too , however , given the extreme weather oz is prone too , sometimes a lot of up north is under water due to its tropical weather , it would be good for to have pipeline going to and from all the mainland states , in australia , nearly every year there is usually floods or drought that can be in any state .
I’ve seen these green buildings in Dying Light 2. Pretty cool.
There needs to be a reason why we generate so much money. If we don't imprrove the systems we have & spend the money to do so, it'll all be a waste of everyones time
most of these project's delays have been directly related to government mismanagement and at the expense of projects which benefit a much larger percentage of the population. our government loves to spend millions on studies, investigations and inquiries into these projects only to get it all wrong and then spend more money to go through all those investigation and inquiries over again then still make a decision on political benefit over practicality or need. most of these projects are being awarded to the lowest bidder (generally an offshore conglomerate) and end up getting delays, budget over-runs and poorer quality products as a result.
I can't wait for your videos to come out
Most people don't realise just how wealthy Australia is. Our natural and human wealth are so great that we can literally afford anything and everything we might want or need. All of the projects mentioned in this video have costs that are hugely below the cost of our nuclear-powered submarine fleet for the RAN and at the same time we are building a fleet of advanced fleet of new frigates, 9 of them at a cost of $1Billion each. Other specific fleets for the RAN are also being constructed or waiting for the completion of reviews before ships are selected and construction begins. There is absolutely nothing that Australia cannot afford and every politician or commentator who claims anything different is either a fool or a liar!
And yet they can’t build affordable housing for the thousands who need it.
@@judithstrachan9399 It's not that we can't afford it but land for houses has to be available first, but it is not. To be available a lot of infrastructure has to be built first. Then builder have to be available, but they are not. This has little to nothing to do with money but with other issues and problems which are occurring throughout the world now. It is a complex and difficult problem.
And there's only enough personal to run half the nine boats -- given being in the armed services and navy is soooo yesterday!
There’s absolutely nothing Australia cannot afford? You gotta be kidding! How about free tertiary education? How about free health services including dental care for everyone? What about the lack of housing for tens of thousands of homeless people? What about having the highest prices for electricity in the western world? I could go on and on but I can’t afford it.
I am a migrant from Denmark. In my 45+ years here I have always said that Australia should be the richest country in the world. So many raw materials that we don't know what to do with them other than just dig them up and send it away. I have some land where I can pick up iron with a magnet. That would be mined in Denmark but here it is just a nuisance. Australian industry should be much higher developed. In stead we just put every thing on a ship and ship it away.
In regards to cost of labour then a few years back I think we stopped making matches. In stead we import from Sweden - not a low labour cost country.
The biggest problem is lack of investment. Most companies just want reasonably short term profit and as they can invest anywhere in the world they go for the most profitable places. To make Australia filthy rich demands Government intervention but none of the parties are strong enough to stand up to big business.
You overlooked Queensland's massive infrastructure upgrade, including $70b over a decade upgrading the electricity network and the 10-year Olympic Games program, which includes underground and surface rail, motorways, stadiums, villages and much more. Qld is booming.