Cont’d

The main benefits, and the reason privatization can keep costs lower, is because they can avoid the three deadly sins, incompetent management in the private sector and bureaucrats and politicians in the government sector. All of whom are the primary cause of cost blowouts.

Outsourced services can also benefit from de-duplication. If several entities run for instance, an accounting system which is common, such as SAP, then the one system can service many customers. Economy of scale.

Your article is simply a dog whistle to the converted. Its activism will no doubt receive accolades and supporting opinion from some posters, all borrowed from the likes of New Matilda, The Conversation, ABC, Fairfax, ALP, Greens et al, but how does this “preaching to the converted” add any credibility to your article?

If you wish to be taken seriously by those you seek to impress, the non converted, you might wish to stop writing stereo-typical articles that appeal to those who can’t be bothered to think for themselves. But hey, then you would have nothing at all to write about.

If on the other hand all you want to do is to jump on the electioneering bandwagon for the ALP in NSW, and squawk “privatization, privatization, Polly wants a cracker”, then don’t expect to be taken seriously. Ignorance in no excuse.

Killarney

The costs that are not clear are the department’s cost of managing the contract, not what Serco’s is paid. If there is a lack of transparency, it’s entirely on the government side.

I agree that Acacia may be cheaper to run than a regional prison, but the gap is still very large. Typically, it is smaller but still substantial – in the region of 20-30% as I indicated.

As spindoc says, the amount paid to private prisons is set in contracts which governments only sign if they are getting value for money.

Kellie what you appear incapable of understanding is that communism failed. It is a totally failed ideology.

Even China, which still has a communist political system had to get rid of it as a financial system, because it was starving millions.

Yet here we have you advocating yet another tilt at that same failed ideology.

Time to finally leave that ideology you & your mates so loved at university, & accept is only an activist students false dream, & can never be reality.

In short, try growing up love.