On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 05:40:30PM +1000, Paul van den Bergen wrote:
> There is a general trend with conservative governments who don't want to
> support public assets to deliberately run them badly and then "sell them
> off because we had to"...  and as much as I am a fan of blaming stupidity
> over conspiracy, I'm finding it hard to disavow the trend...

Stupidity and malice are NOT mutually exclusive.


Running down public assets to provide an excuse to privatise them for peanuts
IS definitely, without any doubt at all, a part of the neo-liberal playbook.
Same as cutting taxes for corporations and then crying poor when it comes to
funding public services like hospitals, roads, and schools.

Sabotaging the NBN was and still is deliberate policy of the Liberals.  The
NBN is fucked up because they didn't want it to work, so once they got voted
in in 2013 they made sure it wouldn't and couldn't.  Almost certainly on
Rupert Murdoch's orders, but they probably would have done it anyway for
ideological reasons anyway.

craig

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