Dissenting Report by the Australian Greens
1.1
The Australian Greens believe the Asset Recycling Initiative introduced
as part of the Infrastructure funding in the 2014-15 Budget should not proceed,
for reasons that are so self-evident as to be barely worth documenting.
1.2
The myth of the pre-eminence of private sector efficiency for running
essential services and natural monopoly infrastructure should be set aside for
the shallow and self-serving ideological dead-end that it is.
1.3
Bribing financially stretched state Governments to sell state assets in
return for funding catastrophically expensive urban freeways and tunnels
graphically illustrates the Coalition’s poverty of vision when it comes to
infrastructure funding.
1.4
The Australian Greens will oppose this measure, and will continue to
promote deliberative planning processes to establish infrastructure plans that
serve communities rather than dividing them.
Senator Scott Ludlam
Australian Greens
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