Public ownership is back in vogue, after the Coalition promised publicly owned nuclear plants in a decade. The problem is, the public service has been hollowed out.
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Not without a bolder commitment to public ownership.
Victorian Labor started the process of privatising electricity assets. Now Premier Daniel Andrews says it was a mistake.
Telstra is positioning itself to acquire a privatised NBN. That might be good for shareholders, but not for competition and consumers.
The pipeline for new antibiotics is broken. It is time to think outside the box.
Today the world is dominated by 30 financial corporations that hold more than half the shareholdings of its corporate giants. And they follow the logic of finance capital – the logic of money.
State governments are now seeking to maximise the price of privatised assets by adding sale terms that restrict competition for the future private owners. That amounts to a hidden tax on consumers.
The new Labour leader has been pilloried for extolling public ownership. In fact, he’s bang on trend.
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Regional Political Economy, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor in Humanities, Griffith University
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Principal Scientist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Research Fellow in Public Services, University of Greenwich
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Sessional lecturer in journalism, Swinburne University of Technology
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Visiting Professor in Public Services, University of Greenwich
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Reader in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and Resistance, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University College Dublin