Asciano: heads I win, tails you lose

After threatening to withdraw from Victorian and NSW grain rail transport and taking the ball with it, Asciano (Pacific National) has signed a grain haulage contract with GrainCorp on which it cannot lose.
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Communication breakdown led to crash

The ATSB has found that a collision between a GrainCorp freight train and overturned truck occurred because train control could not contact the approaching train in the ten minutes or so before the collision.
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Queensland Rail not for sale

Queensland Transport Minister John Mickel has decided not to privatise Queensland Rail but has foreshadowed job losses whilst it is restructured.
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