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Is Public Ownership Successful?
Australia Has Faced the Question for a Quarter Century and Has Reached Definite Conclusions. October 1 1924 FRANK BOHN
Is Public Ownership Successful?
FRANK BOHN
DEVELOPMENT of public ownership in Australia will be the crucial political issue during the coming decade, according to Frank Bohn in the Times (New York). In Australia public ownership is no longer an experiment, says Mr. Bohn. It has been pulled and hauled about the public arena for three quarters of a century. It has proved successful on the whole in regard to public services, but when extended to commercial and industrial enterprises, it has not been so successful, in fact it has proved a fatal mistake. Mr. Bohn surveys the progress of public ownership in Australia and says there now seems to be a strong reaction against municipal or State operation of anything except public service institutions. He says in part:
“The footage of yesterday’s Capitol break-in will be played on eternal loop by Trump-hating media as evidence that the populist nationalist movement which propelled Trump to power was a dangerous aberration that must never be allowed to rise again,” she wrote in her January 6 column in the New York Post.
“They now have a free pass to persecute their ideological enemies while enacting their pet cultural Marxist projects and changing this country irrevocably for the worst.”
Other Trump supporters in Australia went further blaming “Marxists” for “infiltrating” the MAGA movement, and even staging the storming of the US Congress.
Foreign Minister Payne Urges CCP to Grant WHO Entry ‘Without Delay’
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne has urged the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to grant the World Health Organisation (WHO) team investigating the origins to the COVID-19 pandemic access to China.
It follows reports from the WHO that Chinese officials are yet to finalize the necessary permissions for the group of specialists to enter as expected this week.
Payne said the Australian government had consistently sought transparency in relation to the origins of, and responses to the coronavirus. She also noted that the government hoped that the approvals needed for the WHO team’s travel to China could be issued “without delay”, the Australian Financial Review (AFR) reported.
Fire burns in the grass near Bumbalong, south of the Australian capital, Canberra, Feb. 1, 2020 [AP Photo/Rick Rycroft]
2020 has had no shortage of images of catastrophe and suffering, but the ones that haunt me the most are from the inferno that engulfed my home country, Australia, at the very beginning of the year.
For us Australians, the year started with images of giant flames climbing up the cliffs of the Blue Mountains and the news that over a billion animals had perished in the fires raging across the continent. Over the previous month, we had witnessed the Sydney skyline disappear under a dystopian, orange pall of smoke and would soon watch in worry as hundreds of vacationing families huddled together on beaches to be rescued from fast-approaching fires.