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Victorian Labor started the process of privatising electricity assets. Now Premier Daniel Andrews says it was a mistake.
Rod Sims & Michelle Grattan
Michelle Grattan talks with Rod Sims, former chair of the ACCC, now a professor at the Australian National University's Crawford School for Public Policy, on tax, gas and the budget.
Unless action is taken, the UK will be unable to supply its own water needs in the future – we should look to water-scarce regions such as California for inspiration.
Mozambique’s trade unions have not been a strong force in society – which has left a space for others to fill.
It’s time for a national grid that serves the public and meets the challenges of a warming world. A new government-owned and operated body should take control of Australia’s electricity system.
Active government involvement in the electricity sector is necessary for Australia to meet its ambitious climate targets. But we shouldn’t totally abandon the power of market forces.
We arrived at this moment thanks to a series of policy decisions under previous governments – state and federal - that left Australia’s energy system unable to cope with the demands placed on it.
Only 4% of for-profit aged care providers are in the highest quality tier.
Liverpool is the first city in England to investigate, via a land commission, how urban property can best serve everyone.
HS2 has been controversial from the outset, not least because experts don’t agree about its benefits. However, canceling the Leeds branch is to the region’s detriment.
Problems with affordable, accessible energy could be mitigated by making more energy providers publicly owned.
Victorian-era engineering is struggling under decades of underinvestment.
Government-owned firms are often branded as uncompetitive, stuck in the past and unable to truly innovate. But they’re sometimes better suited than private firms to drive new, clean technologies.
Christine Holgate’s demise over luxury watches shows public-sector norms and private-sector competition don’t mix well.
Nigeria’s attempt at privatising its power infrastructure hasn’t been without challenges but they are not insurmountable.
Economics tells us that governments privatising services where quality counts is a bad idea.
The fifth episode of a series from The Anthill Podcast on how recoveries from major crises throughout history focuses on what happened after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Unsolicited market proposals are not transparently assessed. Infrastructure should be built to serve the public interest, not shaped by its private backers, but the checks to ensure this are broken.
A look at the theory behind nationalising key public services, as well as what has happened in practice.
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Essex
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Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
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Professor, Discipline of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Maritime Logistics Expert, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), Deakin University
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Departmental Lecturer and Course Director MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management, University of Oxford
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Politics, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Associate Professor of Geospatial Engineering, UNSW
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Honorary lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London