Australia Airports Build: Politics and Sydney Airport No. 2

A couple of the world’s airport hotspots have already been profiled on this blog but this post isn’t about a hotspot, it's probably more of an odd-spot.

While Australia is a big country, it is also a small country. It has a similar land mass to mainland US but only a fraction of the population (around 23 million). This population tends to inhabit the larger coastal cities but a booming resource sector has resulted in a mobile workforce making weekly and fortnightly journeys to mine sites in some extremely remote areas.