Badgerys Creek. Keating calls for airport

The federal government must reverse its "diabolical" decision to kill the option of a second airport for Sydney at Badgerys Creek, according to former prime minister, Paul Keating. The Badgerys Creek site, purchased 25 years ago by the Hawke government, was the right site then and is the right site now for the city's much-needed second airport, he said. "There is only one possible site and that is Badgerys Creek,'' he told an Urban Development Institute of Australia NSW conference in Sydney. This "diabolical'' decision to drop the site, about 50km west of Sydney's central business district, would cap the city's air traffic growth and its progress as an international destination. "This is a decision that has to be reversed.''