WHY WE MUST STOP PRIVATISATION?
We get told privatisation will create more choice, better savings and lower costs for consumers; in practice the opposite has happened.
Often, privatisation means Governments up needing to spend even more money to fix problems or bring services back to the public realm.
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In recent months, even the Australian Competition and Consumer chairman Rod Sims has said that the sale of ports and electricity infrastructure and the opening of vocational education to private companies had caused him and the public to lose faith in privatisation and deregulation.
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Services in South Australia that have already been privatised are extensive making SA one of the most heavily privatised states in the nation.
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Gas, water, electricity - you name it - the whole service (or parts of these services) have been sold:
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1993 SA Gas Co
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1995 Adelaide Buses
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1995 Pipeline Authority
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1999 Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA)
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2000 Darwin Railway
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2001 Flinders Ports
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2012 Forestry SA
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2012 SA Lotteries
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2015 Motor Accident Commission
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2017 Lands Titles Office
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What will be sold off next?
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