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No sweetening the salty tale of water privatisation : Comments

By Acacia Rose, published 25/11/2011

The 'corporatisation decade' has salted the once sweet taste of clean, publicly owned water and the guarantee of well-maintained, safe and affordable public water utilities.

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Barry O'Farrell must be booted out of office and in the interim we must make him as unpopular in the polls as Nathan Reese was.

We expect NSW government to be responsible for high power prices as they are bringing 2 million Indians to Sydney to make that electricity more expensive. Why? So Barry can drive limousines and we can all sit on street corners with begging bowls.

When we, the public say, Barry, We want lower prices for electricity or water we DO NOT want to hear him say its a private matter and I can't do a damn thing about it. That's not why spilt blood & fought wars to get professional Government.

Privatising water is the same political cop-out. It is fundamentally anti-democracy, pro-aristocracy government that has no business in NSW.

We should all stand with the Police in their demonstrations against this self serving Greineresque ablution of government and tear it down ASAP.

I don't see why O'Farrell should stay another minute let alone another 12 years. This 'too big to fail' corporation tool is capable of turning NSW into another Libya or Egypt.
Posted by KAEP, Sunday, 27 November 2011 11:57:13 PM
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Privatisation should not be allowed in this country, unless it makes a few adjustments to who needs the water the most, and where. For example, crops such as tomatoes, rice and cotton should never be grown in Australia, maybe in heavy rainfall areas such as the NT., the water usage is huge. There is enough rice coming in from other countries where rainfall is plentiful. Cotton farming uses a heap of water, and much of it should be grown in the region of Asia and Southern America.
Providing that companies are honest and able to find a fine balance between different crops needing ex amount of water that makes the growing of same and crops being grown just for the sake of it.
Privatisation is OK in the overall scheme of things, sadly some members of Parliament cannot see beyond Canberra, and often have no idea about the needs of rural Australia.
Posted by Noisy Scrub Bird, Monday, 28 November 2011 6:11:36 PM
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Privatization of utilities is a great advantage. It puts downward pressure on costs.
First you have commodity collectors.
Then commodity suppliers.
The first one is if you do not have the infrastructure you do not have the commodity to sell.
The suppliers are who is willing to sell you the commodity at a curtain price. There can be a host of commodity collectors and a host of commodity suppliers.
Think of the bigger picture, it can be Gas, Water, Power.
Why would you not want a market that was in competition.
Posted by 579, Monday, 28 November 2011 6:30:34 PM
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That's it 579!

Confuse the hell out of them.

You've even made ME forget the corruption of the American free market system that is based on evil ARBITRAGE and mega-Trillions of phony US dollar bills that even Julia has been suckerd with.

But can you come up with a potion that puts the cops to sleep while we ram 'em up the rear end?

I'd be so ever grateful mate.

Yours eternally,

Barry O'Farrell

PS When Sydney gets the extra 2 million Indians I am promised and electricity is $1 per KWH I'll make sure you get yours free. Mums the word now. And If you end up on the street like the other NSW sods that think this is a DEMOCraCy I will make sure your begging bowl is the biggest.
Posted by KAEP, Monday, 28 November 2011 8:20:57 PM
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I do not see comparison between the US system and the Au system of govt;
A different breed of fish all together. Govt; are experts at nothing. which includes utilities. They should not be in business of selling commodities. It takes private enterprise to maintain infrastructure, to a level of reliability. Govt; will call the shots on the quality of product, to be offered for sale. I do not see any problem at all in privatization of utility services.
Posted by 579, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 10:12:49 AM
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PSST! HEY 579,

I got this nice earner of a brigeedige across Sydney Harbour.

I can sell it to ya - for $600.

Interested?

Barry O'Farrell

Prime Minister

NSW

Mandated by the people of NSW to be GOD eternal.
Posted by KAEP, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 8:26:14 PM
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