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Originally Posted by janddbone
If we are looking backwards with 2020 vision, what we needed was the Commonwealth to purchase all these State elctricity assetts from the 90s onwards. Then move to a flat cost connection charge for industry, with pretty much unlimited power, even for residential use really. We had plenty of it... That is how our economy could have had an advantage while maintainig good wages, house prices etc. This would have assisted Holden and every other industry associated with it, would still be to this day.
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We went from having one of the cheapest electricity prices in the world, to now one of the most expensive. Privatisation really worked a treat
