Re: SRA trading as Argus Telecommunications Pty Ltd

[Bruce Greening <bgreeni@attglobal.net>]

In fact Argus is part of RAC, which very definitly is still owned by the NSW
Govt, as  a Govt. owned Corporation.

"C. Dewick" wrote:

> Railway Rasputin II <bob@fastlink.com.au> writes:
>
> >Argus is the former Rail Com which is now seperate from SRA.
> >It is a very confusing set up
>
> Is it running as a seperate entity which is totally seperate from government
> influence, or is it like FreightCorp and still tied in to political whims?
>
> I knew RailCom was being spun off, but I wasn't sure how far it would go. It
> seems that now RSA are successfully winning maintenance contracts (such as
> the Bondi-Waterfall one) ahead of the astrological tampon company (!), they
> are becoming less restricted.
>
> We've recently lost our local signal electrician here at Waterfall, and
> perway are going very soon (unless they finished up on Thursday), all due to
> the RSA staff rationalisation thanks to them winning the Bondi-Waterfall
> maintenance contract... As long as they don't turn out like their competitor
> (see above) things should be ok, but there are dark problems emerging with
> so much integral functionality which kept the rail system running
> harmoniously being thrown to the wolves so-to-speak.
>
> I'm all for privatising non-core services, but some non-core services (like
> infrastructure maintenance) cannot be 'rationalised' without resulting in
> commensurate safety and system reliability reductions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig.
>
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