Re: Freightcorp's interstate sell-off blamed on competition fears

[Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au>]

Very true, but we have a problem Greg.
  
Have you ever heard of PACIFIC POWER.?
This is just another "private sounding name" but public
owned NSW GOVERNMENT body who has just happened to rack
up millions of dollars losses to the NSW taxpayers.!

The power industry was well and truly controlled by the
left in NSW and they managed to roll Bob the Prem in
the caucus.

Now they find themselves in real trouble with mixing
with the private big boys imported into Oz by
Hawke/Keating policies and Kennetts "flog the lot off".

Just ask some of the independent members of NSW
parliament what it is going on.!

Power industry one day, railways the next.

....Tell
  

>Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote and I quote his comments only, 
>its called, selective snipping. :)
> 
> Really it is a win win situation for Freightcorp as the can do what they like without
> being scrutinized by the parliament in its day to day operations, however if the
> company does something that is not popular, the minister can intervene if it starts to
> effect him in the opinion polls.
> This is one thing that has not changed in the latest round of "reforms" which should
> have changed.  Also I find it strange that the locomotives in question have been idle
> for a number of years because there is no work for them.  Yet when another operator
> starts going after work that Freightcorp is not interested in, they become rather
> defensive.
> 
> Or alternatively where the RIC operates in the same fashion as what the RTA does in the
> road industry  where operators pay a fixed registration fee for each piece of rolling
> stock they own as well as a fixed access charge that each operator pays to access the
> system.
>