#privitisation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #privitisation, aggregated by home.social.
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Sign the petition to hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership.
As companies have done a shit job of it since #privitisation, I think it's worth a try
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqwwvnp7z8o
Shameful. Dentists should hang their heads in shame!
So many dentists now only take on private patients, with current NHS patients often having to travel hundreds of miles to get treatment on the NHS, if they can get it at all, yet we read millions of pounds are unspent.
Is this in a bid to privitise the entire service that only the rich can afford?
I repeat: dentists should hang their heads in shame!
#NHS #DentistsForAll #Dentists #UK #Privitisation #ProtectOurNHS
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What clears parasites from drinking water?
We need some of that here....https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/14/thames-water-court-mp-pay-legal-bills-charlie-maynard
#ThamesWater #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Privitisation #LateStageCapitalism -
Minister for Health Ryan Park is set to make history — the Northern Beaches Hospital will return to public hands.
This $190 million deal delivers on the promise to end one of NSW’s worst privatisation experiments, protecting taxpayers and putting patients first.#nswpol #health #publichealth #northernbeaches #privitisation
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Steve Reed: Come clean on the true cost of publicly owned water https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/petition-steve-reed-come-clean-on-the-true-cost-of-publicly-owned-water 📝 #Petition #UKPol #UKPolitics #ComeCleanSteve #Privitisation
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Instead of maintaining infrastructure, funds went to Shareholders and Bosses. And now we have things like this...
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/south-london-street-submerged-water-32062005
#ThamesWater #London #Privitisation #LateStageCapitalism #FailedState
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@NorthantsGreens Why is Labour on the wrong side of the Public on this?
Oh yeah, the money....
#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #WaterCompanies #Privitisation #Nationalisation
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#chomsy #capitalism #privitisation #politics Top man IMO . But how many #sheep on the bus even know his name? #justsaying
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NSW to Ban Privatisation of Public Hospitals
The NSW government is introducing "Joe’s Law" to block future privatisation of public acute hospitals. The law is named after two-year-old Joe Massa, who died in September after waiting three hours in the emergency department of Northern Beaches Hospital—a private-public partnership (PPP) operated by Healthscope.
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The $1 Million Miracle: How to Turn Peanuts into $730 Million (Just Ask the NSW Government!)
Remember that time in 2015 when the NSW Government sold the totally outdated, super-polluting Vales Point Power Station for a cool $1 million? Yeah, just your average fire sale of a public asset. But wait — plot twist! By 2017, this "worthless" coal plant was magically valued at $730 million.
Guess it just needed a little private sector fairy dust to unlock its true potential, right? 🙃
Ah, privatisation — where public assets go to become someone else’s goldmine. What a deal! (For some, anyway.) 💰#JustGovernmentThings #PeanutsToProfits #DodgyDeals #ValesPointMiracle #Auspol #Nswpol #privitisation
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-24/coal-power-station-sold-for-peanuts-becomes-730-million-asset/9077582 -
Rising costs, growing inequality, and a shift towards user-pays? The future of Australian healthcare is at a crossroads. With an ageing population and fewer workers to support it, how will we manage? Is private health cover easing the burden or making things worse? And could Australia be heading towards a US-style system? #Healthcare #Australia #Medicare #privitisation #HandsOfMedicare #Auspol
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#education #academy #privitisation this was always the danger with the #thatcher plan. The obsession with #sats #oxbridge etc etc was a big black hole. Contrary to the meaning of e-duco (to lead out...implied "out of darkness"). #supporttheunions #nut ✊ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/02/pupils-uk-schools-academy-essex-mossbourne?CMP=share_btn_url
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@dbattistella Privatising healthcare is a dangerous path—look at the US, where basic medicines like asthma inhalers cost 10-40x more than here. In Australia, we pay as little as $7.30 for life-saving meds thanks to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). In the US? Over $500 without insurance.
When healthcare becomes profit-driven:
* Prices skyrocket
* Accessibility plummets
* Health becomes a privilege, not a rightOur public system works because it prioritises people over profits. Let’s NOT follow a model where families ration medicine or skip care to pay bills. #auspol #medicare #privitisation #medicarecuts
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Private health insurance is a dud – no wonder most Australians opt out. Now, insurers are reportedly seeking a 5-6% premium hike next year. That’s bold, considering 65% of policies don’t even cover everything. #HealthInsurance #Australia #HealthcareCosts #Privitisation #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth #Medicare
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Australia's toll road economy is unsustainable. Earlier this year, ex-#ACCC chairman Allan Fels and transport expert David Cousins released a report claiming Transurban is exploiting #Sydney motorists, urging the #NSW government to take over toll roads. Transurban controls 11 of NSW’s 13 toll roads, each with different contracts and price hikes. The report says NSW motorists will pay over $123 billion in tolls over 37 years, with Transurban’s #WestConnex motorway accounting for more than half. #highwayrobbery ##privitisation #greed #MultinationalCorporations #mostTolledCityOnEarth
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/07/australias-toll-road-economy-eats-itself/
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Mega corporations control most Australian toll roads, causing ever-increasing costs for motorists. In #Sydney alone, drivers pay $2.5 billion annually in tolls. A recent review in #NSW has now recommended overhauling the toll road system. #mostTolledCityOnEarth #privitisation #tolls #MultinationalCorporations #greed #slavery
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The blueprint for Sydney’s toll shake-up is here. This is what it says (*spoiler - add more tolls) #mostTolledCityOnEarth #sydney #bogancity #privitisation
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#Fraud, waste and abuse: How some #doctors are exploiting #Medicare and turning patients into 'cash cows' (welcome to #privitisation) #Auspol
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Adam Almeida on the implications of the looming collapse of Thames Water:
'[R]ather than tinkering with the ownership structure or again trying to regulate a privatised industry, [the solution] is to ultimately end the exploitation of our public goods. England must follow the lead of the rest of the world – and bring water back into public ownership'!
The fever dream of privatisation has been an enrichment scheme for investment bankers!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/thames-water-privatised-public-ownership
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🚗 Roads in #sydney have taken a hit since the Rozelle Interchange opened. 🛣️ The increase in local street traffic is a safety concern and disrupting morning commutes. Sydney is the most tolled city on earth, and it's no wonder drivers are seeking alternatives. Time for solutions! #TrafficTroubles #SydneyTolls #mostTolledCityOnEarth #privitisation
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Your #water bill will rise by 6% in April; Water companies have requested a 40% uplift in prices over the next five year period (2025-30). This, they say will help cover the necessary #investment needed to address the obvious problems we are currently seeing.
But, if #privitisation was intended to ensure a free flow of capital for infrastructure & these firms having been paying high dividends for years, how is it the customer is being tapped for investment resource?
[this is a rhetorical Q.!]
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Privatisation "has not improved the fiscal position of governments, nor has there been, in general, an improvement in standards of customer services or a lowering of prices relative to the previous trend."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-14/privatisation-public-assets-water-sewage-transport-fair-society/103097448 #privitisation
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Inflated Opal fares to the #Sydney Airport are costing families more than double the price that sharing an #Uber would. Private Owners of the Airport #Train Stations, #SydneyAirport Link, have increased the cost of Opal travel incrementally since the train line was privately built in 2000 for the Olympics. #privitisation #publictransport
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I don't call the #Tory party the #PlunderParty for nothing. They never miss an opportunity to drain the public purse, leaving a desperate nation ripe for #privitisation.
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#ACCC approves overseas takeover of #OriginEnergy #aus4sale #privitisation #multinationals #taxdodgers