Bipartisan backing has Newcastle's container plan in ship shape

OPTIMISE: The area where the Port Botany container terminal is has better uses.

FINALLY, there is a clear group to blame for the lack of progress on Port of Newcastle's container terminal plans: "bedwetters".

Colourful language aside, Nationals MP David Littleproud's confirmation that the project "just makes economic sense" means that both sides of politics appear to see the logic in diversifying NSW's largest coal port into the future.