The original Gateway Bridge took six years to build, from 1980 to January 1986, and cost $90 million. The second bridge will take three years to build - from March 2007 to mid-2010 - and cost, reportedly, $1.88 billion. That is $350 per metre, compared with $92 per metre for the original bridge.
Two Sections Of Second Gateway Bridge Scheduled To Join Tonight
Drawn half a millennium ago and then swiftly forgotten, one map made us see the world as we know it today… and helped name America. But, as Toby Lester has discovered, the most powerful nation on earth also owes its name to a pun.
The Brisbane Lions’ Fitzroy faithful are up in arms over the AFL club’s decision to change the logo it adopted in their merger 13 years ago.
“When you look out on the horizon, you’d think that it was a smoke coming off a fire until you see that it’s just manoeuvring just above the horizon and it’s just like a wave of birds.”
“Lugosi died during production, and it shows.”
‘Freezer plan’ bid to save coral
The prospects of saving the world’s coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future.
Wellcome Image Awards 2009 - had the pleasure of seeing these last Thursday.
Genome analysis changes diagnosis
A critically ill Turkish boy has had his life saved after scientists were able to read his genome quickly and work out that he had a wrong diagnosis.
Nigel Tao: Sydneysider Googler Part Of Google Wave Team
Tao, 30, is part of the team at Google Australia that created the product and, perhaps fitting for a software company such as Google, comes from a rich lineage of maths geniuses.
