In relation to these concerns, an editorial in The Canberra Times suggests that the airport’s framing of its arguments in terms of its expansion plans vis-à-vis the planned housing development at Tralee is a distraction from much wider planning considerations that need to be debated (The Canberra Times, 2003). The editorial, “Airport pitch a smart move”, asserts that Canberra airport’s ambitions for commercial development areas at the airport “take place in a vacuum, and without reference to ACT planning about shopping centres, oYce development and land use”. In addition to accentuating the negative environmental externalities of airports, Graham and Guyer (2000, p. 261) agree that airport business parks “can be a zero-sum game if the airport-related jobs are diverted from other locations within the region”. Interestingly, a later development in the debate involved resistance from a powerful group of builders and developers who are unhappy with the planning concessions that enable unfettered oYce developments at the airport. This has disadvantaged the group’s interests in other parts of Canberra, thus creating additional enmity towards the airport from competing commercial interests (Cassidy, 2004a,b). An editorial cartoon from The Canberra Times captures the situation succinctly, referring to the airport owner in the “Snow dome” caption (Fig. 4).