public assetts should never be sold off, no matter what.

They should also be run on a cost recovery basis only, which will ensure more jobs than if they were privately owned, furthermore, these jbs would be there as long as the assett remained.

To think we are th luckiest country on the planet, yet still have to sell assetts just to repay debt is discrasefull, to say th least.

To think labor sell these assetts, from under our noses, knowing full well it will cost jobs is beyong beliefe..

rehctub,
Labor is not interested in people only in the control of them.

Indy, that's rubbish. If we have it all the rights side, this planet would be long gone.

cactus

The problem isn't privatising the assets. It's government created monopolies of the assets. I don't know how you can overcome this issue, but under government management didn't work and government created monopolies just screws us over big time. The "true" free market should be able to run supreme for once, then we could see if it really does work? Trouble is, too many people are afraid to look after them selves and go running to government to wipe their noses for them. Not to mention the amount of parasites in this world today that rely on government to fund their BS lifestyles.

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Indy, that's rubbish. If we have it all the rights side, this planet would be long gone.
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How would you know? The battle between left and right has be ongoing for millenia. Most sane democracies tend more to the right. Any that tend more to the left end up in revolution and death; history doesn't lie!

Hasbeen
As tempting as it is to ignore your misinformed post I will attempt a response.

If you ever read my posts I have often been critical of unions and lack of accountability and I have written enough about keeping assets in public hands for the very reason Banjo states.

Some services should remain for the collective good and not become just another profit generating machine. This also means managing the services well so that the people who are paying for it get value for money.

How my call for a referendum on these issues has anything to do with unionism beats me. Not all unions are corrupt by the way and not all corporations take ethical considerations into account.

Trouble with you Hasbeen is it is all one thing or the other, life is not always that black and white. It is the blind faith often in one or the other that is the problem and creates much of the 'groupthink' mentalities prevailing and not much in the way of bipartisan thinking.

The battle between left and right has be ongoing for millenia......and that's just the problem. This war between the two, is why nothing happens, and you know it! Like bellies, don't bullsh!t me or anyone else.

Look at the title...The battle of Queensland...really Raw-mustard, your no better than the fools that run this country, and you know that as well.

Dont prejudge me as if you know me.

The caveman politics will be as they are, cause no-one has the guts to point the incompetence that's happening in this land.

Here a thought....Vote 1 The raw dude.

Battle! you sound like your quoting the bible....

Run along, the world is not ready for you:)

cactus