Corridor selection history for Australian high-speed rail

[citation needed] The most frequently studied route for high-speed rail in Australia is between Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane.

[11]In late 2008, Transrapid re-entered the Australian high-speed rail debate with a proposal put forward to the Victoria State Government to build a privately funded and operated Maglev line to service the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area.

The 2010 Infrastructure Partnerships Australia report identified Noosa-Brisbane-Gold Coast as a potentially viable high-speed rail link, and a possible precursor to a full east-coast system.

[14] The report predicted that a 350 km/h system would reduce travel times between Cooroy (22 km west of Noosa) and Brisbane to 31 minutes (currently 2:08 hours), capturing as much as 84% of the total commuter market.

In January 2010, Western Australia's Public Transport Authority completed a feasibility study into a high-speed rail link between Perth and Bunbury.