⁣Why Does Indonesia Have a 350 km/h Fast Train While Australia Still Struggles With Average-Speed Rail?

One of the biggest surprises of my recent visit to Indonesia wasn’t the new capital city of Nusantara or Jakarta’s relentless pace. It was boarding the Whoosh high-speed train between Jakarta and Bandung.

The experience was extraordinary.

In just around 30 minutes, we travelled between two major cities at speeds reaching approximately 350 km/h. The journey was smooth, quiet and every bit as impressive as the high-speed rail systems I’ve

experienced elsewhere in Asia.

What struck me wasn’t simply Indonesia’s achievement.

It was Australia’s failure.

Indonesia is still commonly described as a developing nation, yet it has managed to build one of Southeast Asia’s most advanced transport systems while Australia, one of the wealthiest countries in the

world on a per capita basis, still cannot deliver even ordinary passenger rail between many of its major population centres.

Perhaps before politicians start talking about futuristic high-speed rail, Australia should first learn how to build an average-speed train.

Take the Brisbane to Gold Coast corridor.

The two cities are only around 70 kilometres apart.

An ordinary modern passenger train travelling at about 120 km/h could complete much of that journey in around 30 to 40 minutes, transforming daily commuting for hundreds of thousands of people.

Instead, commuters often spend 70 to 90 minutes on today’s rail services, and considerably longer if travelling by car during peak-hour gridlock.

That isn’t simply inconvenient.

It is an enormous drag on productivity, quality of life and economic growth.

Every extra hour spent sitting in traffic is an hour not spent with family, running a business or contributing to the economy.

Meanwhile, Indonesia has leapfrogged into the future.

The country’s Whoosh high-speed railway demonstrates what can be achieved when governments decide that modern infrastructure is an investment rather than merely another political announcement.

Australia has spent decades discussing high-speed rail.

We’ve commissioned study after study, produced glossy reports and made election promises.

Yet little changes.

Australians deserve to ask an uncomfortable question.

How can Indonesia build a 350 km/h railway while Australia still struggles to provide reliable, average-speed rail between nearby cities?

Infrastructure should not be viewed through a political lens.

It should be viewed through an economic one.

-Faster transport means higher productivity.
-It expands labour markets.
-It reduces congestion.
-It increases property values around transport hubs.
-It attracts investment.
-It improves tourism.

Most importantly, it gives people back something increasingly valuable: time.

Australia has the engineering expertise.

It has the financial capacity.

What appears to be missing is the political will.

Watching Indonesia’s sleek high-speed train glide effortlessly across Java was inspiring.

It also served as a reminder that Australia’s infrastructure ambitions have become far too modest.

Perhaps it’s time to stop debating whether Australia can build world-class rail and instead start asking why nations with fewer resources are already doing it.

Until then, Australians will continue watching other countries race ahead while we remain stuck in traffic.

Source: https://x.com/jamiemcintyre21/....status/2070407794503

⁣Do we need a new definition for being labelled “ anti semitic “, since Oct 7 ?

It’s a big club your in if you are labelled such a term, solely used to deflect and defend against the undefendable position that “Israel has the right to mass genocide and murder unarmed civilians in the bs defence, it’s in “ self defence”.

Does Anti Semitic now mean you are simply anti genocide of unarmed men,women,children and babies and anti Bs from the war criminal elites behind Israel who control the US and the western vassal states?

The answer is clearly yes.
Don’t be shamed into being pro genocide and pro war criminals that are thieves, cowards and pyschopaths.

Most Israelis don’t support their regime either,nor even the IDF,and believe their current PM will cause a civil war in Israel due to his extreme hatred and position against unarmed civilians.

And yes the current PM helped start Hamas,and ensured its funding.

He claims Israel security forces let Hamas across the border on Oct 7 ?

Or is he saying that to deflect from the fact he did it,to sure up his failing support. Either way someone let them in on Oct 7 to use them as the justification for mass genocide. Don’t fall the obvious deception and lies and endless propaganda in the media they control or the threats if you dare object.

Let the cabal fall along with their western puppets, as the world finally figures out anyone, including the “ chosen ones” can’t commit genocide and spin their way out of it.

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⁣Following their EXTENDED bilateral meeting today, Xi Jinping says he and President Trump have reached a mutual agreement for a "STRATEGIC STABILITY"

"We both believe that the China-US relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. We must make it work and never mess it up.

Both China and the United States stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation.

Our two countries should be partners rather than rivals. President Trump and I also agreed to build a constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability to promote the steady, sound and sustainable

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⁣Why Millionaires are Fleeing Dubai for Bali (Massive Property Collapse)

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⁣We were told that the paving over Charlie’s murder scene was already scheduled before he was killed.

But here is Dan Merrell, the man reportedly hired to pave over Charlie Kirk’s death scene, who says he received an emergency call the Sunday after it happened and was told the Governor and the FBI wanted it “done by Monday”

What was the urgency?!

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⁣Space Perspective will launch a hot air balloon in 2024 that will carry a capsule of people into the stratosphere. Passengers will spend six hours in a luxurious capsule with a bathroom, Wi-Fi and more at an altitude of about 32 km above the ground.