Archive for 'Privatisation'
Blame climate change and privatisation, not renewable energy, for the blackout in South Australia
Posted by John, October 4th, 2016 - under Privatisation, South Australia, Storm.
Tags: Blackout, Climate change, Climate change deniers
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In Independent Australia on Tuesday I discussed the absurdity of the Turnbull Government’s claims that the SA blackouts were caused by renewables. Click here to get to the link to the full article, in which I raise privatisation and climate change as the real culprits of the blackout. SA blackout: The ‘renewables and Labor did it’ tale
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Of course the Liberals won’t privatise Medicare
Posted by John, June 20th, 2016 - under Labor Party, Medicare, Privatisation.
Tags: Health care
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The real threat at the moment to Medicare is not privatisation. It is underfunding. Underfunding is the half way house on the way to privatisation and Labor by its failure to commit to restoring previously agreed $57 billion of funding is a key party to the long term destruction of Medicare.
Abbott government will privatise the air
Posted by John, April 8th, 2014 - under Privatisation.
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‘Only socialists and off with the fairies Greenies support free air,’ Mr Abbott said, and added that ‘just as there is no such thing as a free lunch, so there is no such thing as free air.’ ‘The support of the Reformed Labor Party (No Unions Allowed) for this move, one we first floated in 1986 as Option D under Hawke and Keating but which the evil unions defeated, is a great move to doubling our membership from 20 to 15,’ another RLP (NUA) insider said.
The Hazelwood mine fire: privatising disaster
Posted by John, March 10th, 2014 - under Morwell, Privatisation.
Tags: Fires, Hazelwood
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As Luke pointed out when speaking to Red Flag after the meeting, “At the end of the day, everyone in there [the town meeting] is talking about what Hazelwood should do. The only thing Hazelwood’s interested in doing is putting money in its shareholders’ pockets. That’s the only responsibility they’ve got. They got no responsibility to Morwell or the Latrobe Valley community.”
9,000 Tax Office jobs to go?
Posted by John, February 15th, 2009 - under Labor Party, Neoliberalism, Outsourcing, Privatisation, sackings, Tax, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wickenby, Workplace madness.
Tags: ALP, Australian politics, Capitalism, Change program, efficiency dividend, Fighting back
Comments: 27
The crisis in the Australian Tax Office is deepening. Those who administer our tax system want to massively cut the number of full time permanent ATO staff and privatise essential operations.
Privatisation and the bushfires
Posted by John, February 15th, 2009 - under Neoliberalism, Privatisation, The Liberals.
Tags: Australian politics, Big business, Bushfires, Capitalism, Environment
Comments: 1
What role did privatisation play in the Kinglake fire which killed over 100 people? It may have contributed. SP Ausnet has the contract to maintain the power lines in much of eastern Victoria. Some believe a broken power line sparked the Kinglake fire. They have launched a class action against SP Ausnet and the Victorian […]