Submission prepared for Save Our Rail NSW Inc. by Joan Dawson Email: info@saveourrail.com.au Introduction Save Our Rail is a community organisation reflecting community concerns regarding all public transport issues, but with a particular focus on rail, because of the threat to close the Newcastle rail service. We welcome any move by the NSW Government to ...

Below is an extract from two speeches given by our President, Joan Dawson, in 2005 to the TAFE Teachers’ Association and to the Lake Macquarie Teachers’ Association. It focuses on the conflict of interest between the report recommending the closure of the Newcastle rail line and those interests seeking to gain from its complete removal. ...