Mike Baird. I dunno about you...

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I have said on these borads before that I thought he was genuine and generally I didn't mind him.

But in the lead up to the NSW campaign, he has stooped to standard Liberal tactics of lying through his teeth.

Take his latest pledge - he is going to create 150,000 new jobs. 150,000!! Out of thin air apparently because nothing he has said actually backs this up. In fact, everything he is planning to do will actually throw more people on the unemployment scrap heap.

So how can any man with morals make a statement that is clearly untrue - that just by electing him, he will be able to create enough jobs to put a 20% dent in the current unemployment figures?

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@Anonymous wrote:

Still can't understand why they didn't float it like Telstra.

Maybe some things just can't float.

In any case electricity prices WILL go up.

There was only one moment in history that they actually went down.

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I don't know.

Can you float a leased company? 

[icyfroth]

Actually, Idle is quite right.

"NSW Coalition premier Mike Baird is well placed to fix the damage caused by one of the worse examples of regulatory capture since federation.

True, he would have been better served by promising to privatise the entire electricity distribution system following a likely win (at least in the lower house) at the March 28 election. And yes, he may be overstating the gains from his proposal to lease a total of 49 per cent of the state's "poles and wires" for 99 years.

However, the full benefits from partial privatisation won't materialise while Baird refuses to embrace new rules overturning the old regulatory regime the former Labor energy minister Martin Ferguson foolishly praised as "cutting edge". Far from being cutting edge, these rules let the monopoly distributors ride roughshod over their business and household customers.

Modelling by Deloitte Access Economics says the asset-recycling plan will increase state output by $300 billion over the next 20 years.

Modellers have previously highlighted the supposed gains from tollways and tunnels whose operators later went broke. At best, this sort of modelling should be treated with a kindly disregard.

However, provided Conboy prevails, significant efficiency gains should flow from scrapping the old regulations that promoted feather-bedding and gold-plating."

Entire Article Here

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@icyfroth wrote:

Actually, Idle is quite right.

"NSW Coalition premier Mike Baird is well placed to fix the damage caused by one of the worse examples of regulatory capture since federation.

True, he would have been better served by promising to privatise the entire electricity distribution system following a likely win (at least in the lower house) at the March 28 election. And yes, he may be overstating the gains from his proposal to lease a total of 49 per cent of the state's "poles and wires" for 99 years.

However, the full benefits from partial privatisation won't materialise while Baird refuses to embrace new rules overturning the old regulatory regime the former Labor energy minister Martin Ferguson foolishly praised as "cutting edge". Far from being cutting edge, these rules let the monopoly distributors ride roughshod over their business and household customers.

Modelling by Deloitte Access Economics says the asset-recycling plan will increase state output by $300 billion over the next 20 years.

Modellers have previously highlighted the supposed gains from tollways and tunnels whose operators later went broke. At best, this sort of modelling should be treated with a kindly disregard.

However, provided Conboy prevails, significant efficiency gains should flow from scrapping the old regulations that promoted feather-bedding and gold-plating."

Entire Article Here

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Well of course Martin Ferguson thinks Bairds plan is cutting edge - his model was exactly the same. But fortunately for us, the Labor Party, Unions and industry bodies told him where to shove it and our energy has remained state owned, albeit broken up into stat. authorities.

It si interesting that the article doesn't specify "old regulations" that "promote feather bedding". Are they actually talking about the industry before deregulation? Otherwse it makes no sense.

Anyway what is  missing from your C&P is that the article (whilst heavily pro privatiosation) criticises Barird for asking for key parts of the legislation to be dropped - legislation that would have seen a 30% fall in electricity prices is being sacrificed in order to generate a business model that makes it more attractive (and profitable) for a corporation to buy.

[idlewhile]

Thanks Icy, of course I'm right,  but the rusteds will never admit what was done to NSW under labor, how the unions raped and pillaged consumers for decades and they even destroyed  sitting Premiers for even suggesting it should go private.

Featherbedding, outrageous OHS and union rule led us to suffer the worst ripping off in  this state and now I hope we will see some improvement  because the voters of NSW opted for an honourable truthful govt and rejected labors fear and hate campaign,  more of the same under years of suffering under labor

Labor has learnt nothing, still mired in the past and captured by the Greens who did better than Labor did. They'd better watch out for the Greens.

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@idlewhile wrote:

Thanks Icy, of course I'm right,  but the rusteds will never admit what was done to NSW under labor, how the unions raped and pillaged consumers for decades and they even destroyed  sitting Premiers for even suggesting it should go private.

Featherbedding, outrageous OHS and union rule led us to suffer the worst ripping off in  this state and now I hope we will see some improvement  because the voters of NSW opted for an honourable truthful govt and rejected labors fear and hate campaign,  more of the same under years of suffering under labor

Labor has learnt nothing, still mired in the past and captured by the Greens who did better than Labor did. They'd better watch out for the Greens.

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Again I ask if you are from NSW?

I think you will find that any Labor person will decry what has gone on in the party for the last decade. The comments on the boards (including from myself) refute your ridiculous claim.

But you have no idea what you are talking about if you think it has something to do with unions. In fact quite the opposite. It was corruption at big business level that did the damage to our state.

And if you think the corruption was Labor only then think again. Does the name O'Farrell ring a bell? You think it was a mere bottle of wine and all the lies surrounding that wine debacle that was the reason for his resignation? Pfftt.

And as for the Greens - they won the seats they always win and lost votes to the ridiculous CDP in other areas. if you look at how the boundaries were shifted for all the inner city seats, then you would understand why Parker won Balmain. The Liberals didn't even bother campaigning in that seat...