Re: SRA trading as Argus Telecommunications Pty Ltd

["chris@enet21.com.au" <chris@enet21.com.au>]

It might not be owned by the NSW govt for long as Transfield are after it along
with the maintanence division of Telstra - NDC

Chris.

Bruce Greening wrote:

> 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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