Us Privatisation News Today

In opposition, NSW Labor campaigned against bus privatisation. But, the new minister now says “the options available are limited”. Jim McIlroy reports.

“We’re carrying a bit more debt than we used to, but also the asset recycling agenda is definitely renewed for us,” Berejiklian said. “When talking about asset recycling we’re serious; instead of owning something that might not be very creative and active on the balance sheet, you can convert that into schools and hospitals and roads and rail,” she said. Just how creative and active a publicly-owned asset needs to be seems to depend on whether you are a corporation or an ordinary ...