*I however can talk from insiders view, government management is the failure*

Belly, I agree with you, the problem is at the management level.
Nobody holds management accountable for their poor performance.
politicians are commonly more concerned with political implications,
many who work for Govt have learned that if they do nothing and
take no chances, they have a well paid meal ticket for life.

Its virtually impossible to fire a Govt employee. So as nobody
has any incentive to change the system, which is often a Govt
monopoly, nothing happens and bad judgement continues with no
ramifications.

The big cost in all these things is not profit, if you look at most
balance sheets, that is a very small % of the total. It is waste.
Time wasted, materials wasted, manpower hours which costs heaps,
nobody has any incentive to improve efficiency or change anything,
so nothing changes.

Exactly the same thing can happen in large corporations, if they
have monopoly kind of powers. But eventually those coporations will
be bought out and revamped, something which won't happen with
Govt ownership.

Yet some Govt organisations can perform ok, when a gun is put to
their head and management is changed. I gather that is what happened
to Australia Post. They were told that they would be flogged off,
if they never got their act together, which gave them a very
good reason to change and improve.

yabby in some of what you say you are right, not all.
Once government things like rail road mail even health was not meant to profit.
Young men from my southern highlands hamlet knew they had a job.
in state rail.
many would be lucky to get another job it was the plan, give jobs to country folk for life.
It did not work.
history will tell others it had to change but it did long ago.
Along with underproduction workers came those who never stopped working, nick names like the robot or the machine, men who gave all.
Numbers, governments wanted to reduce numbers, you and I yabby would have used the chance to empty the rubbish bin, yes I am unionist.
Not these foolish ones, the best the vital to get it done went first.
think about this, a record is kept of every quarrier ever used by the RTA every place it is used.
A firm contracted by the RTA to refind those lost records by surveying the roads, hired a 40 year service ex RTA worker who simple as it seems remembered they got half a million for that
We can both get real people in management rolls and get it done, some public servants are useless rejects from real work.

I can not both remain in work and openly comment on my job.
If I could, one day I will, a story about a current blindly stupid plan to betray NSW and those who care for our environment would stun most.
Here in OLO people of far more talent than me exist.
Look for a moment at privatization from another point of view.
if given the task and just the power CEO s have why could we not turn these things around.
it is wrong to say unions will not let you, above my head is my award for leadership in a changed workplace, earned while senior delegate.
those unions unwilling to let change in are going to die.
those managers holding it back, bringing in contractors, are murdering government endeavors.

Government run agencies (departments), are as
good as the elected government and the management
entrusted to run these agencies. If the people
are not happy with the operation of the agencies
they have a right to vote and elect a government
who will remedy the situation.

In private enterprise there is no such option.
The only people who have a say in running the
enterprise are the shareholders and the directors
whose only interest is big profit at any cost.

Comparing the two options, the only choice the people
have is by voting for the government that will undertake
positive action. From time to time governments do cut
back, re-vamp, re-organise, amalgamate and pass new
legislations to stream-line government departments.

Foxy afraid it is not that easy.
It was a Liberal state government that started the improvement like EBA.
They however hit the same rock the incoming NSW conservative government will, the public servants running these things have little skill/understanding, far too much self confidence.
And for the most part have jobs for life, you get promoted in the public service if you muck up enough things.

Foxy, the very idea of privatisation, is that you actually create
competition, so that people do have choices, as distinct from
govt monopolies.

When Telstra had a monopoly, you had one phone company. Now you
can choose between all sorts of ISPs, mobile phone operators etc.
That has been good for consumers.

So the secret of good privatisation is for Govt to do it well, ie
create that healthy competition. They don't always achieve it.

Even libraries need competition, so that our librarians don't
go to sleep on the job, at taxpayers expense.

Give it 5-10 years and I'll be surprised if some company can't do
the libarary thinggy far more efficiently and cost effectively,
through an ebook kind of solution. Even Rupert Murdoch acknowledges
that the days of his printing presses are doomed.