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Public provision of services is notoriously inefficient. A recent study showed that privately run hospitals perform surgeries for about 30% less than public ones. Privatising services could provide better services for less taxpayer money.

Secondly there is a lot of labor monuments to bureaucracy that contribute bugger all, such as the department of climate change. The entire dept can be axed without affecting anyone.

I have no problem with private hospitals or privatization of any sort.
since our power network was sold off, we make our own decisions who we buy power from.
I do not think water should be privatized.
Private busses and trains, it's all there.
Those are state issues.
That only works where the population base is to support private enterprise.
V line circumnavigates the entire state here, Probably would not work in states where there is nothing but iron ore.
So privatization can be limited. Or someone is going to miss out.

QLD public servants taking pay outs no surprise there, the downside is you may lose more than you bargain for.
Why not privatize departments of public servants, seeing private costs less. Still under the authority of ministers.
C Newman is a one man band, just like you know who. Tony keeps in touch, probably picking up a few tips.
Abbott wants to spend 4 billion on infrastructure, but there is not any plans done yet. It'l be several years away.
Interesting times ahead i reckon, Power usage is continuing to fall, they may have to drop the price to encourage some more power to be used. At the rate solar is going in i don't think the decline is going to stop any time soon. They have opened a can of lively worms now.
Power generation could even end up back in public hands again.