Re: QR restructure coming?

[mauried@tpg.com.au (Maurie Daly)]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:02:18 +1100, Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au>
wrote:

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>Maurie Daly wrote:
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>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:22:40 +1100, Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au>
>> wrote:
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>> >Maurie Daly wrote:
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>> >> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 02:01:32 +1100, "James C."
>> >> <james_ccj@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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>> >> >> Sounds like there doing what everyone else has done.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I hope that they get it right unlike their southern counterparts who have
>> >> >> stuffed everything completely, and have now needed an inquiry to recommend
>> >> >it
>> >> >> all goes back together.
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>> >> >Just hope what ever they do DO NOT PRIVATISE QR
>> >> >
>> >> >The system works fine and earns big $ without privatisation.
>> >> >
>> >> >Cheers
>> >> >James
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>> >> The system doesnt work fine at all.
>> >> Queesland Rail is a Govt owned monopoly which earns 70% of all its
>> >> revenue from the carriage of coal.
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>> >Are you arguing that QR be split up into several  coal carring companies, a general freight company, several
>> >passenger companies and of course the mandatory track access company all competing against each other while the
>> >Road Transport industry is laughing all the way to the bank.
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>> No , Im simply stating that coal companies in Queensland shouldnt be
>> forced to use QR simply because noone else is allowed to haul coal.
>> If QR are a efficient coal carrier as they claim they are , then they
>> should not fear competition from other rail operators .
>> To achieve this requires an independant and more importantly NCC
>> certified track access regime which the Qld Govt and QR have refused
>> to have anything to do with.
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>Why should they.  The Queensland government are only protecting their investment.  Remember, the Queensland
>government has spent more on railways in the last 5 years than the Rest of Australia combined, with their open
>access policies  which have been the recipe for decreased rail spending as governments get out of the industry.
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Are you suggesting then that there should be no competition at all in
this country simply because company owners are entitled to protect
their  investment.

ie no competitiors to Telstra, only 1 Govt owned airline , only 1 Govt
owned bank.
Why is QR any differant??

MD