Wow, can't give you many marks for common sense Hazza, but you sure get top marks for bravery.

Having seen the bureaucrats manage to burn down 178 houses, with such a simple thing as insulation, you now want to let them run a factory.

Then, not just any factory, but one building things that generate power, the very thing that got them into trouble with the insulation project. My god man, you do like living dangerously.

Fortunately the wind power thing would be long abandoned before those twits could get any factory built, let alone up & running, so I suppose we are safe enough.

Still a good plot for a horror movie. I can see it now, as power surges throw bolts of lightning from the transmition lines, cooking the heroine's family, along with half a city. Then we could have huge propellers comming off, rolling down the highway, chopping up cars, oh, & lots of blood. I think this thing has legs, you've missed your calling mate.

Hasbeen, if the best you can do is try to conjure up a spooky horror movie scenario about green appliances falling into a chain-reaction of mass death and destruction (which for some odd reason, isn't a problem with all of the other electrical appliances we use to be of social concern), then I think we're done here.

As for the 'competence' of private enterprise vs public-owned entities- ask Telstra and Sydney Airport.

Otherwise, keep trying.

How many houses has Sydney airport burned down exactly mate?

I don't even remember Telstra getting too many, do you? Let me know.

Telstra is a good example of state industry though. After privitisation, they got rid of 60% of the state "wokers", & were then overmanned only 30%.

Government built wind turbines, even the Chineese would not be able to afford to buy them.

Notice the rail unions? They don't like Anna, & her sell off plan. They know damn well that more than half of them will go, to get some efficency in rail.

Not that I mind too much with a bit of overmanning. A mate of mine built a full racing motor bike in the railway workshops. From drawings, through casting, & machining, right up to racing.

Well the railways had to be good for something, didn't they.

continuing with the 'but they get burn down lol' line still? (unless of course Sydney airport and Telstra had a history of burning down houses BEFORE privatization)

Simple binary question- have Sydney airport and Telstra improved or worsened in terms of input (cost) and output (services) post privatization?

Simple question, feel free to shout out your answer.