At this election, Labor's spokesman for infrastructure and transport, Anthony Albanese, is in a contest to hold his Sydney seat of Grayndler against the local Greens candidate, Jim Casey.
Mr Albanese's statement is overreach. The Greens have a long term aspiration to close Sydney's airport and relocate it further away from the city. They also oppose the new Badgerys Creek airport, located around 50km from the Sydney central business district. The Greens have not nominated any alternative airport sites, although as examples they point to airports in Oslo, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Athens, which are located between 30 and 50 km from the respective city centres and connected to the city by high speed rail. Based on the Greens' policy, it is hard to envisage any site in the Sydney area that would meet their approval. But the Greens do not propose that Sydney would be left without an airport at all: closure of the existing airport would only occur after a new one is built — somewhere.
Fact check: Do the Greens want Sydney to be without an airport?
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