Re: QR restructure coming?

[Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Maurie Daly wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:02:18 +1100, Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au>
> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >Maurie Daly wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:22:40 +1100, Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au>
> >> wrote:
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> >> >
> >> >Maurie Daly wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 02:01:32 +1100, "James C."
> >> >> <james_ccj@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >> 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.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Just hope what ever they do DO NOT PRIVATISE QR
> >> >> >
> >> >> >The system works fine and earns big $ without privatisation.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Cheers
> >> >> >James
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> >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.
> >> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >>
>
> 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.
>

Of course not.  But it is a thing called political expedency.  If I was a Queensland tax payer I would like see that
investment protected.

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