Second airport may not fly, despite job cost, warns Albanese

Illustration: Cathy Wilcox THE federal Transport Minister, Anthony Albanese, says he is ''pessimistic'' about winning support for a second Sydney airport site, even though he says failure to build one may threaten 70,000 jobs over the next 50 years. Addressing the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday, he offered little hope that a soon-to-be-released review into second airport locations for Sydney would lead to much progress. ''Unless there is a level of bipartisanship I am pessimistic about being able to achieve support for a second airport site,'' said Mr...