Those who've been driving the RailCorp train have been sacked and we're changing the driver.
The Government will now do it.
Yet this is the same Government that on the same day yesterday was confronted with unprecedented corruption at the Labor dominated Wollongong Council.
There is a connection.
RailCorp has been before ICAC for months and months, a mammoth investigation.
Indeed, so many employees and contractors appeared before ICAC in the ICAC RailCorp hearings that ICAC's taken the unusual step of staggering the release of its findings over several months.
But one employee was able to get away with $650,000 from RailCorp, even though the management was warned about her four years ago in an internal corruption report and did nothing.
She just went on to defraud RailCorp of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Another bloke was found to have stolen $2.4 million from RailCorp.
ICAC found that in the past three years RailCorp had awarded almost $20 million of work improperly allocated to contractors.
$3 million had exchanged hands in direct financial benefit.
ICAC have made corrupt findings against 21 people and are seeking advice in relation to prosecuting 23.
The Government is now saying it's going to take charge of this corrupt entity.
No talk about improving rail services. No talk about changing the culture.
The union bosses are saying that the changes are fantastic.
No wonder.
They'll be able to run rings round the Government. But that's not the issue.
The Government is now decorporatising RailCorp and virtually saying to the public, trust us, we'll manage this corrupt outfit and get it back on the rails, pardon the pun.
Yet on the same day we learn that ICAC Commissioner Cripps QC said, "To establish actual corrupt conduct within five levels of a New South Wales public sector organisation as has occurred with Wollongong City Council is without precedent".
In other words, unprecedented corruption at the Labor dominated Wollongong Council.
Yet there's a massive Department of Local Government; the very government that says it will now manage the corruption in RailCorp couldn't monitor the corruption at Wollongong Council in which some of its own senior figures were involved.
The ICAC Commissioner says the level of corruption within Wollongong Council is unprecedented.
Yet the former Mayor of eight years and the current Member for Keira, David Campbell, now a Minister in the Government and the current Member for Wollongong, Noreen Hay say they knew nothing.
But local Labor MPs are still yet to fully and publicly detail their dealings with the people who've been found guilty of corrupt conduct.
And what's more, the people of Wollongong aren't being given a chance to have local government elections and throw the Labor Party out of its administration.
Instead Macquarie Street have put in an administrator, wait until the dust settles, the electorate might forget and their Labor mates can run the show again.
It beggars belief that on a day when we learn of unprecedented corruption at the Labor dominated Wollongong Council, the Labor Government which couldn't prevent that is now telling us that it will better manage the rail administration in this State which seems corrupt from its head to its toes.
I hate using the word, but it's depressing to think that this is happening in the name of government.
Remember, sex, lies, deals and development approvals in Wollongong Council could only flourish because the Government in Macquarie Street turned a blind eye to that corrupt framework.
Because remember, the Wollongong Council prospered sex, money and personal relationships in deciding development outcomes, and the State Government's Department of Planning ticked off the development approvals.
At what point does Macquarie Street say, we'd better give the electorate a chance to decide if they want someone else to run the State.
