One Nation (infrastructure)
{{short description|Australian government infrastructure development program}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
One Nation was an Australian Government program of infrastructure development carried out under the Keating Government from 1991 to 1996. Much of the program was implemented as a means of stimulating the economy in the aftermath of the early 1990s recession.
Elements
Key elements of the One Nation program included:
- the Melbourne–Adelaide railway line was converted to standard gauge in 1995.{{cite web
|url=http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au/common/nrm_a01_index.html
|title=National Railway Museum Port Adelaide - Rail History
|publisher=www.natrailmuseum.org.au
|access-date=2008-03-30
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080323003951/http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au/common/nrm_a01_index.html |archive-date = 2008-03-23}}
- the 1067mm gauge Fisherman Islands railway line to the Port of Brisbane was converted to dual 1435/1067 mm gauge and extended in parallel with the duplicated passenger line to Dutton Park in 1997.{{cite web
|url=http://www.rag.org.au/frag/fragbook.htm
|title=A Critique of the Dual Gauge Link to the Port of Brisbane.
|publisher=www.rag.org.au
|access-date=2008-03-30
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRT45DlRXCQC&dq=%22back+on+track%22+fisherman+island&pg=PA191
|title=Australia's gauge muddle and prospects
|work=Back on Track: Rethinking Transport Policy in Australia and New Zealand
|author=Philip Laird
|publisher=UNSW Press
|year=2001
|isbn=0-86840-411-X
|access-date=16 August 2008
|page=191
}}
- a standard gauge link was built to the port at Fremantle, Western Australia.
- new standard gauge sidings were provided at Adelaide Outer Harbor.
- a separate freight line was built between Macarthur and Glenfield as the first stage of what is now known as the Southern Sydney Freight Line. Its planned extension to the Chullora – Enfield freight line near Sefton was completed in 2013 by the Australian Rail Track Corporation with funds provided by the Australian Government under AusLink.
- the Sydney–Brisbane railway line was upgraded with longer passing loops, the replacement of wooden trestles with concrete bridges, concrete resleepering, some minor deviations and bank stabilisation.
- passing loops were extended on the North East railway line between Wodonga and Melbourne.
- overhead clearances on the Adelaide–Perth railway were increased to allow for the transit of double-stacked containers.