http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11452#194930

Arjay, spot on mate, but i think it is even worse than that.

In the Closet Communist GAYLP, there are broadly speaking 2 factions, a corrupt right, who will take a "performance bonus" from anybody & the morally corrupt "inter" national socialists, who are deliberately, "with malice, aforethought" white anting our society, economy from within.

You get public/private infrastructure projects funded by debt from the macquarie bank, brokered by former GAYLP politicians. Several of them in NSW & VIC which were already failing, several years before they did the same trick on the Clem7 tunnel in Brisbane which is almost bankrupt now.

Privatisation of electricity supply in QLD is just one of many deliberate, premeditated, plans for failure that have been inflicted on us. Their own internal polling plus the 2010 federal election results show that they will be lucky to hold onto any more than 6 of their safest seats at the next QLD state election.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11452#194940

579, privatisation is NOT the way of Australian society at all, Joh Petersen's government was corrupt, but nowhere near to the depravity of the GAYLP. He would never have sold any of the assets that captain Bligh has, or inflicted pokies on our poor people to financially, abuse their children.

Privatised power is NOT working well in Victoria. Can't you read.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11452#194854

A Victorian called VK3AUU, complaining about a system that is NOT working.

The bushfire commission found most of the fires were started by faulty power lines, not arsonists.

You CAN'T switch retailers anytime.

A BAD stock of private retailers are in place, PSEUDO competition is already happening & prices are rising everywhere.

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

BTW, you also just directly contradicted your earlier comment, about suppliers putting up the price instead of retailers, a problem, for power, telecommunications & water supply in QLD.

And did not reply to my last comment on the voodoo economics article either, running out of answers are we?

The mainstream energy sector from top to bottom, government and private, lives in a whole separate reality - a reality where climate change is an annoying side issue intruding on their job of forever increasing supply at lowest cost, a reality where emissions reductions requirements can be got around by planning new coal fired plants that have the 'possibility' of retrofitted Carbon Capture without any requirement to actually fit that technology. When CCS fails to live up to expectations those plants will be considered essential, whereas emissions reductions can, again and endlessly, be put on the (high emissions) back burner.

The new private management of electricity supply will be ongoing opponents of serious emissions reductions and being directly part of the working economy, will have more influence over government policy than the voices of science and academia. Good planning for the profit making business of electricity supply is about maintaining profitability and emissions reduction imposes unwanted costs. So a growing, certain threat to future security and prosperity will continue to go unaddressed by anything but sound bites and badly compromised greenwash.

579 says:

"Privatization is the way of society, not socialism. When a good stock of private retailers are in place, good competition happens and prices will fall."

Can you give a single example where that has happened, 579?

Groceries? Woolworths has reported double-digit INCREASES in profits for the past eleven years. Is that evidence of competition?

Telecommunications? Ports? Banking? Airlines? Airports? Where?

Keating's National Competition Policy has resulted in LESS competition and higher prices.

Victorian power supply charge went up 11 cents / day and power charge went up 1.5 c/ kwh as of feb;
You will have to tell me why you can't switch any time you want to.
I do not dabble in voodoo.
The price rises are to pay for maint, costs, and they did come from the supplier, not retailer.
Belchin Joe was created by the residents of Qld, who could see no better. So i suppose they got what they created. A third world state.
What is meant by deliberate failure, I think you are reading toooo much Harry Potter.
So the man that used to be a sausage needs help.

Formersnag,there is a silent revolution germinating. See ' Secret of Oz' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U71-KsDArFM This award winning doco by Bill Still reveals the solutions to our debt crisis.The 'Wizard of Oz' (written in the 1890's Depression) by L Frank Baum had deep economic meaning for us all.

Be a part of this revolution and post it widely.

I wonder how many of the political elite, have made a killing in the share market after privatization?