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Stop privatisation of Commonwealth and State assets
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An immediate halt to the privatisation of Commonwealth and State assets
and regulatory bodies, and the reversal of those privatisations where
necessary for the public good.
For the past fifteen years, Australia has tripped over itself to sell
off its valuable state assets. We are second in the world, in the volume
of privatisations in dollar figures, after the United Kingdom, and
second in the world in the per capita value of privatisations, after New
Zealand. An example of a privatisation that should be reversed for the
public good, is the power system in Victoria, which at $20 billion was
the biggest single item in the Kennett government's selling spree after
it won election in 1992. That privatisation turned a power service that
had taken tens of billions of dollars over decades to establish, into
separate generating and grid businesses that have collectively slashed
more than 14,000 staff; stopped conducting ongoing maintenance like
replacing old power poles, instead waiting for break downs; generated a
dramatic increase in black outs and brown outs and power spikes; and
which were overall incapable of providing Victoria's power needs for a
week during a heat wave this last summer, while still selling power on
to interstate buyers via the national grid.
Using the criteria of the public good, many other privatisations would
be reversed as well. The purpose of privatisation, which, like the
union-busting agenda, has been run by the Mont Pelerin Society, is
looting pure and simple, and we will stop it.
An immediate halt to the privatisation of Commonwealth and State assets
and regulatory bodies, and the reversal of those privatisations where
necessary for the public good.
For the past fifteen years, Australia has tripped over itself to sell
off its valuable state assets. We are second in the world, in the volume
of privatisations in dollar figures, after the United Kingdom, and
second in the world in the per capita value of privatisations, after New
Zealand. An example of a privatisation that should be reversed for the
public good, is the power system in Victoria, which at $20 billion was
the biggest single item in the Kennett government's selling spree after
it won election in 1992. That privatisation turned a power service that
had taken tens of billions of dollars over decades to establish, into
separate generating and grid businesses that have collectively slashed
more than 14,000 staff; stopped conducting ongoing maintenance like
replacing old power poles, instead waiting for break downs; generated a
dramatic increase in black outs and brown outs and power spikes; and
which were overall incapable of providing Victoria's power needs for a
week during a heat wave this last summer, while still selling power on
to interstate buyers via the national grid.
Using the criteria of the public good, many other privatisations would
be reversed as well. The purpose of privatisation, which, like the
union-busting agenda, has been run by the Mont Pelerin Society, is
looting pure and simple, and we will stop it.
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