Seems a bit like "the pot calling the kettle black", but what else (the content of the article) would you expect from a government of any pursuasion in NSW.

David

Powerful capitalist ideologues made all the money. Workers, sick and disabled people, the poor and blacks lost all their services, their security, bargaining power and cash.

Privatisation, lowering taxes and "commercialisation" have destroyed our communities and our empathy for each other and this was by design. Capitalism needs everybody being as greedy and as selfish as possible to work and the powermongers of recent decades have made it their goal to destroy anything that could stand in the way of the atomisation of society. To capitalism the only thing that matters is your buying power/price.

"I think it is about time we had a Commission of Inquiry into this..."

Why only one? Why not have a slew of competing Commissions of Inquiry? They could all come down with recommendations externalising the blame for governmental incompetence, and recommending
policy action on the basis of an assumption that government is possessed of superior wisdom, capacity and virtue.

mikk
"To capitalism the only thing that matters is your buying power/price."

To government the only thing that matters is your shooting power/trough-snouting.

The festival of junketing that follows the government's realisation that it can't manage to afford its monopolies, even with monopoly powers and compulsory payment, is the fault of the state. If the people are not willing to pay for a "service", then it's not a service, it parasitism.