Comment by shirro

South Australia sold its state owned electricity grid to Chinese owners for 200 years. Every time people say our high power prices are due to renewables think critically. A "conservative" government granted the right to tax our entire population and our businesses for multiple human lifetimes, longer than our state has existed for a short term windfall that disappeared in the blink of an eye. Call it corruption, or call it mismanagement, probably neither given Australia's harsh defamation laws but privatization should be viewed with extreme suspicion. Services can often be run more efficiently in private hands but the opportunities for corruption in the sale of public assets is massive and there is rarely any accountability.