Overseas consortia include: Northern Direct including the company building the Go-Between Bridge with companies from France and the United Kingdom; Laing O'Rourke and Transfield; TransCity including Brisbane-based developers BMD Constructions plus firms from Spain and Italy; Dragados Northern Link with business interests from Spain; and Korea's Daelim and Korea Expressway Joint Venture. Join discussion...

THE Queensland Government will struggle to get the $15 billion it wants for the five port, road and rail assets it put up for sale yesterday, because of a lack of buyers and a massive devaluation of infrastructure in the past two years. The market was surprised by the decision to sell Queensland Motorways (valued by the Bligh Government at $3 billion), the Port of Brisbane (valued at $3.5billion), Forest Plantations Queensland ($500 million), Queensland Rail's coal freight business ($7 billion) and the Abbot Point Coal Terminal ($1.9billion). Join discussion...

Brisconnections - the company building south-east Queensland's Airport Link - insists the company is financially stable, despite hundreds of people struggling to pay for their investments. The company says the road project will be completed, despite their investors' debts. Join discussion...

The project is sponsored by a consortium of investors including Anglo American Plc-owned Anglo Coal Australia (AAL.L), Australian Transport and Energy Corridor Pty Ltd, Industry Funds Management, Queensland government-owned QR Pty Ltd and Xstrata Plc (XTA.L) Join discussion...

THE Queensland Government has gone outside its normal budget processes six weeks before the state budget is to be brought down by putting its entire interest in airports on the market to fund hospital expansions. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh yesterday announced the sale of Cairns, Mackay and Mt Isa airports, as well as the state Government's 12 per cent stake in Brisbane Airport, to fund the construction of a new hospital in Mackay and a major upgrading of the Cairns Hospital. Join discussion...