Dear shadowminister,

You wrote:

“The result was that Victoria earned $bns from the sale of the assets, the assets were then run far more efficiently, lowering the price of electricity to Victorians and paying tax on the profits.”

No the result was the usual carpet baggers arrived and promptly set about maximising profits by running down the State's electricity assets to the point where they are are very large bushfire risk among other things. When they are done they will move on and once again the public with have to pay for the inevitable upgrades through government loans and higher State taxes.

“KEY FINDINGS Results of the consultation and data conclude that: There has been an increase in the number of fires caused by distribution assets in the State of Victoria since privatisation, particularly in the past five years. There has been an increase in the number of faults and failures from these assets. The current condition of assets is assessed as being poor to fair. The condition of assets is declining.”
http://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=fec4e312-b98b-4233-a715-dc8edb33513a

Come on SR you can't have it both ways. A while back you were telling us the fires were caused by global warming.

Which way do you want it old chap, which is the lie.

I'll give you one thing, you are definitely the most agile twister of the facts & truth I have ever seen.

Dear Hasbeen,

Well old chap the sums are simple for most people.

"The problem was clearly identified by the 2009 Black Saturday Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission. The Director of Energy Safe Victoria told the Commission it was “probably self-evident” that there was an increased chance of fires caused by electrical assets on days of extreme fire danger. The Bushfire Royal Commission found that on 7 February 2009, electrical faults caused five of the 11 major fires."

http://theconversation.com/hot-issue-bushfires-powerlines-and-climate-change-9383#:~:text=The%20Bushfire%20Royal%20Commission%20found,make%20a%20number%20of%20recommendations.&text=This%20requires%20approximately%20%24500%20million,controls%20on%20Victoria's%20electricity%20network.

2C rise in temperatures bring a 400% rise in extremely hot days. The last thing that is needed is for aging privatised energy assets to be substantially adding to that threat. Only the intellectually enfeebled can't grasp that basic point.

Another good bit of following the prescribed line there SR.

Please explain why the fires were all in the cooler damper parts of Oz, & not in the hot dry areas.

I'll help just a bit, it has to do with fuel load.

SR,

Once again you are tilting at windmills.

Firstly, I mentioned the sale of the power generation, not the networks which were sold separately so my example remains untouched.

Secondly, the overhead line distribution that is a fire risk in high winds was built and sold as such to the network company with no requirement or allowance to upgrade the networks to lower risk transmission systems. Also, many of the fires were not started by the OH lines.

Thirdly, much of the damage to property was due to left whinge interference in stopping back burning and people creating fire breaks around their houses.

Thanks SR. Your lack of answer says it all.