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Steel on steel : inside the battle for the future of Australia's biggest railroad / Stephen Baines ; photograph by Steffan Jannides.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baines, Stephen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Australia--Management.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--Privatization--Australia--Queensland.
- Railroads and state--Australia--Queensland--History.
- Railroads and state.
- Queensland Rail--History.
- Queensland Rail.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Saint Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Stephen Baines is currently advisor to the Chairman and CEO of Aurizon, formerly Queensland Rail. Prior to that, Baines was working in the QR project management office on a project to reform QR's regional freight business in Queensland.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Timeline; Prologue; Opting in; Last off the rank; Reform and scandal; The brothers; A freedom to roam; The Queensland Premier shocks the State; Policy battle lines are drawn; Inspiration from abroad; The policy battle; Breaking up is hard to do; We will destroy your IPO; Communication breakdown; The final putsch; Leaving the station; Going to market; Hitting the road; Black bookbuild; The elegance of Hahli; A calm determination to change; Epilogue; Endnotes; Index; Acknowledgments; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 17, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-7022-5581-5
- OCLC:
- 897645699
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