#publicownership — Public Fediverse posts

In his paper, @johnquiggin proposes a carve up of the NEM based on the following principles:

“Markets are used where they add value, regulation is tightened where monopoly persists, and public ownership is deployed selectively where it lowers costs, improves accountability, and reduces systemic risk.”

It is a well argued position and given current emphasis on the on-going electrification required for climate actions, it make perfect sense. A long read (as papers generally are) but written in a way to be accessible to the public and form the basis for a rigourous public discourse. One which must be had if we are to relieve the cost of living and meet our 2050 targets.

I commend this paper to you all.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/P2004-Beyond-Patchwork-Reform-Web.pdf

#AEMO #NEM #PublicOwnership #PrivateOwnership #EnergyMarkets #EnergyTransmission #RetailEnergyMarket

#Water #privatisation has failed

#SouthEastWater spent more on #shareholder #dividends than on infrastructure

Now the taps aren't working in #Kent and #Sussex

Emma Reynolds and #Ofwat bring South East Water into public ownership immediately

Sign the petition

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/south-east-water-public-ownership

#England #sewage #greed #CorporateGreed #PublicOwnership #WaterOutage

#Water #privatisation has failed

#SouthEastWater spent more on #shareholder #dividends than on infrastructure

Now the taps aren't working in #Kent and #Sussex

Emma Reynolds and #Ofwat bring South East Water into public ownership immediately

Sign the petition

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/south-east-water-public-ownership

#England #sewage #greed #CorporateGreed #PublicOwnership #WaterOutage

#Water #privatisation has failed

#SouthEastWater spent more on #shareholder #dividends than on infrastructure

Now the taps aren't working in #Kent and #Sussex

Emma Reynolds and #Ofwat bring South East Water into public ownership immediately

Sign the petition

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/south-east-water-public-ownership

#England #sewage #greed #CorporateGreed #PublicOwnership #WaterOutage

#Water #privatisation has failed

#SouthEastWater spent more on #shareholder #dividends than on infrastructure

Now the taps aren't working in #Kent and #Sussex

Emma Reynolds and #Ofwat bring South East Water into public ownership immediately

Sign the petition

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/south-east-water-public-ownership

#England #sewage #greed #CorporateGreed #PublicOwnership #WaterOutage

#Water #privatisation has failed

#SouthEastWater spent more on #shareholder #dividends than on infrastructure

Now the taps aren't working in #Kent and #Sussex

Emma Reynolds and #Ofwat bring South East Water into public ownership immediately

Sign the petition

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/south-east-water-public-ownership

#England #sewage #greed #CorporateGreed #PublicOwnership #WaterOutage

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Just in time for #UK #Election Day

Which political parties support public ownership?

A matrix comparing each party’s stance on issues that affect most people every week (even every day)

https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/which-parties-support-public-ownership

#voting #Green #Tories #Reform #YourParty #Labour #LibDems #SNP #PladCymru #politics #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #elections

Just in time for #UK #Election Day

Which political parties support public ownership?

A matrix comparing each party’s stance on issues that affect most people every week (even every day)

https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/which-parties-support-public-ownership

#voting #Green #Tories #Reform #YourParty #Labour #LibDems #SNP #PladCymru #politics #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #elections

Just in time for #UK #Election Day

Which political parties support public ownership?

A matrix comparing each party’s stance on issues that affect most people every week (even every day)

https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/which-parties-support-public-ownership

#voting #Green #Tories #Reform #YourParty #Labour #LibDems #SNP #PladCymru #politics #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #elections

Just in time for #UK #Election Day

Which political parties support public ownership?

A matrix comparing each party’s stance on issues that affect most people every week (even every day)

https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/which-parties-support-public-ownership

#voting #Green #Tories #Reform #YourParty #Labour #LibDems #SNP #PladCymru #politics #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #elections

Just in time for #UK #Election Day

Which political parties support public ownership?

A matrix comparing each party’s stance on issues that affect most people every week (even every day)

https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/which-parties-support-public-ownership

#voting #Green #Tories #Reform #YourParty #Labour #LibDems #SNP #PladCymru #politics #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #elections

Horrifyingly, the board of OfWat is divided over whether to accept the Thames Water offer to be let off regulation for over a decade and to avoid penalties for the pollution and mismanagement already carried out. How it could be anything but a unanimous rejection I don't know. I guess money talks. So we need to encourage them to make the right decision. Join me in writing to them:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/ofwats-board-is-split-urge-them-to-make-the-right-decision-about-thames-water
#WaterCompanies #UKpolitics #privatisation #PublicOwnership #Sewage

Horrifyingly, the board of OfWat is divided over whether to accept the Thames Water offer to be let off regulation for over a decade and to avoid penalties for the pollution and mismanagement already carried out. How it could be anything but a unanimous rejection I don't know. I guess money talks. So we need to encourage them to make the right decision. Join me in writing to them:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/ofwats-board-is-split-urge-them-to-make-the-right-decision-about-thames-water
#WaterCompanies #UKpolitics #privatisation #PublicOwnership #Sewage

America Had Free Electricity Before 1900 — Then One Family Bought the Grid

#nikolatesla #energy #capitalism #publicownership

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpZz2iMQkDU

Hold a referendum to bring the #water industry into #PublicOwnership

Hold a binding national #referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership.

Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our #privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

#Petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640/

#sewage #greed #PeopleNotProfits #WeOwnIt #CorporateGreed

Hold a referendum to bring the #water industry into #PublicOwnership

Hold a binding national #referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership.

Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our #privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

#Petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640/

#sewage #greed #PeopleNotProfits #WeOwnIt #CorporateGreed

Hold a referendum to bring the #water industry into #PublicOwnership

Hold a binding national #referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership.

Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our #privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

#Petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640/

#sewage #greed #PeopleNotProfits #WeOwnIt #CorporateGreed

Hold a referendum to bring the #water industry into #PublicOwnership

Hold a binding national #referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership.

Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our #privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

#Petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640/

#sewage #greed #PeopleNotProfits #WeOwnIt #CorporateGreed

Hold a referendum to bring the #water industry into #PublicOwnership

Hold a binding national #referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership.

Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our #privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

#Petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640/

#sewage #greed #PeopleNotProfits #WeOwnIt #CorporateGreed

Email #Ofwat - the public have said NO to illegal #sewage until 2040

In order to maximise their #profits, #Thames #Water's creditors are asking Ofwat and the government to pollute illegally until 2040.

Members of the public, MPs and #anti-sewage campaigners have all spoken out about how outrageous this deal is, urging Ofwat to say no.

Take half a minute to sign the letter:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-ofwat-the-public-have-said-no-to-illegal-sewage-until-2040

#PrivatisationFails #corruption #greed #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #PublicHealth #pollution

Email #Ofwat - the public have said NO to illegal #sewage until 2040

In order to maximise their #profits, #Thames #Water's creditors are asking Ofwat and the government to pollute illegally until 2040.

Members of the public, MPs and #anti-sewage campaigners have all spoken out about how outrageous this deal is, urging Ofwat to say no.

Take half a minute to sign the letter:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-ofwat-the-public-have-said-no-to-illegal-sewage-until-2040

#PrivatisationFails #corruption #greed #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #PublicHealth #pollution

Email #Ofwat - the public have said NO to illegal #sewage until 2040

In order to maximise their #profits, #Thames #Water's creditors are asking Ofwat and the government to pollute illegally until 2040.

Members of the public, MPs and #anti-sewage campaigners have all spoken out about how outrageous this deal is, urging Ofwat to say no.

Take half a minute to sign the letter:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-ofwat-the-public-have-said-no-to-illegal-sewage-until-2040

#PrivatisationFails #corruption #greed #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #PublicHealth #pollution

Email #Ofwat - the public have said NO to illegal #sewage until 2040

In order to maximise their #profits, #Thames #Water's creditors are asking Ofwat and the government to pollute illegally until 2040.

Members of the public, MPs and #anti-sewage campaigners have all spoken out about how outrageous this deal is, urging Ofwat to say no.

Take half a minute to sign the letter:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-ofwat-the-public-have-said-no-to-illegal-sewage-until-2040

#PrivatisationFails #corruption #greed #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #PublicHealth #pollution

Email #Ofwat - the public have said NO to illegal #sewage until 2040

In order to maximise their #profits, #Thames #Water's creditors are asking Ofwat and the government to pollute illegally until 2040.

Members of the public, MPs and #anti-sewage campaigners have all spoken out about how outrageous this deal is, urging Ofwat to say no.

Take half a minute to sign the letter:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-ofwat-the-public-have-said-no-to-illegal-sewage-until-2040

#PrivatisationFails #corruption #greed #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #PublicHealth #pollution

End #RoyalMail #privatisation now

Regulator of Royal Mail, #Ofcom, is again talking about hiking stamp prices

When Royal #Mail was privatised in 2013, we were promised this would help to keep prices down

Price of 1st-class stamps has DOUBLED in last 4 years

You have until 2359 on Thursday, 4th December, to demand they take Royal Mail back into #PublicOwnership and give households a seat on the board to run it in the #public interest.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-royalmail-privatisation

#greed #CorporateGreed #ToryLies

End #RoyalMail #privatisation now

Regulator of Royal Mail, #Ofcom, is again talking about hiking stamp prices

When Royal #Mail was privatised in 2013, we were promised this would help to keep prices down

Price of 1st-class stamps has DOUBLED in last 4 years

You have until 2359 on Thursday, 4th December, to demand they take Royal Mail back into #PublicOwnership and give households a seat on the board to run it in the #public interest.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-royalmail-privatisation

#greed #CorporateGreed #ToryLies

End #RoyalMail #privatisation now

Regulator of Royal Mail, #Ofcom, is again talking about hiking stamp prices

When Royal #Mail was privatised in 2013, we were promised this would help to keep prices down

Price of 1st-class stamps has DOUBLED in last 4 years

You have until 2359 on Thursday, 4th December, to demand they take Royal Mail back into #PublicOwnership and give households a seat on the board to run it in the #public interest.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-royalmail-privatisation

#greed #CorporateGreed #ToryLies

End #RoyalMail #privatisation now

Regulator of Royal Mail, #Ofcom, is again talking about hiking stamp prices

When Royal #Mail was privatised in 2013, we were promised this would help to keep prices down

Price of 1st-class stamps has DOUBLED in last 4 years

You have until 2359 on Thursday, 4th December, to demand they take Royal Mail back into #PublicOwnership and give households a seat on the board to run it in the #public interest.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-royalmail-privatisation

#greed #CorporateGreed #ToryLies

End #RoyalMail #privatisation now

Regulator of Royal Mail, #Ofcom, is again talking about hiking stamp prices

When Royal #Mail was privatised in 2013, we were promised this would help to keep prices down

Price of 1st-class stamps has DOUBLED in last 4 years

You have until 2359 on Thursday, 4th December, to demand they take Royal Mail back into #PublicOwnership and give households a seat on the board to run it in the #public interest.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-royalmail-privatisation

#greed #CorporateGreed #ToryLies

Which political parties support public ownership?

- Do you want #NHS that works for patients not profit?
- Water in public hands to end #sewage in your rivers, seas?
- No more #profiteering from #energy #bills?
- Public #transport & Royal Mail should be publicly owned?

Answered yes? You’re in the majority. But politicians NOT listening

You can find out below with our easy overview of where the main political parties stand on #PublicOwnership

https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/which-parties-support-public-ownership

#PeopleNotProfits

Get your rocks off Ventnor roads now

#Ventnor on the #IsleOfWight is a beautiful, unique Victorian #seaside resort much loved by locals and visitors alike.

Currently six of #Ventnor's #roads are blocked unnecessarily by minor rock debris that take a distressing average of 14 months for #PFI (for profit, contracted #corporation) Island Roads/County Council to clear.

#Petition

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/get-your-rocks-off-ventnor-roads-now?source=Fediverse

#Privatisation #PrivatisationFail #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #PeoplelNotProfits #ToxicLabour

#hosepipeBan now in force in #Oxford and beyond. Of course it's raining too.

and by the way, take #ThamesWater into #publicOwnership now

#hosepipeBan now in force in #Oxford and beyond. Of course it's raining too.

and by the way, take #ThamesWater into #publicOwnership now

#hosepipeBan now in force in #Oxford and beyond. Of course it's raining too.

and by the way, take #ThamesWater into #publicOwnership now

#hosepipeBan now in force in #Oxford and beyond. Of course it's raining too.

and by the way, take #ThamesWater into #publicOwnership now

#hosepipeBan now in force in #Oxford and beyond. Of course it's raining too.

and by the way, take #ThamesWater into #publicOwnership now

#UK gobt worst case scenario for nationalising water still leaves households better off

Research found an average of 35% of customer bills used to pay for interest on companies’ loans, & to pay dividends to shareholders

You're paying a #PrivatisationTax for #water companies dividends & debt

Publicly owned #ScottishWater doesn’t pay dividends to private shareholders, lost just 8% of revenue in interest payments

https://weownit.org.uk/news/governments-worst-case-scenario-for-nationalising-water-still-leaves-households-better-off/

#Water #PublicOwnership #inflation #tax #PrivatisationTax

`#HealthSciencesAssociationofAlberta called yesterday for an immediate end to the so-called #AlbertaSurgicalInitiative and “a return to full #publicownership of #private #surgical #facilities to prevent further #profiteering off essential #health #care services following explosive revelations that private surgical facilities contracted by [#Alberta] were charging more than double the cost of equivalent procedures performed in the #public system.”'

#abpoli #AHS #fraud

https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/02/impact-of-those-dodgy-contracts-allegations-continues-to-spread-so-did-anyone-ever-call-the-cops/

I can't believe the government are letting our #water bills go up by as much as £220 a year

I've just emailed my MP asking them to intervene. It only too about 30 seconds.

Use this link:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop-the-bill-hikes

#WaterBills #PrivatisationFail #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #PeopleNotProfits #CorporateGreed #corruption

TGIF! We got 40 more signatures on #e4769 this week! We still need one from Nunavut. Any Nunavutiat Mastodonians out there!?

Keep Boosting and Sharing and Talking about an #OpenSocialWeb presence for all Canadians to communicate with their Parliamentarians!

644 and rising!

EN: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769
FR: https://www.noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

#Canada #Mastodom #CdnPoli #CanPoli #Fediverse #Government #PublicOwnership

TGIF! We got 40 more signatures on #e4769 this week! We still need one from Nunavut. Any Nunavutiat Mastodonians out there!?

Keep Boosting and Sharing and Talking about an #OpenSocialWeb presence for all Canadians to communicate with their Parliamentarians!

644 and rising!

EN: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769
FR: https://www.noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

#Canada #Mastodom #CdnPoli #CanPoli #Fediverse #Government #PublicOwnership

TGIF! We got 40 more signatures on #e4769 this week! We still need one from Nunavut. Any Nunavutiat Mastodonians out there!?

Keep Boosting and Sharing and Talking about an #OpenSocialWeb presence for all Canadians to communicate with their Parliamentarians!

644 and rising!

EN: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769
FR: https://www.noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

#Canada #Mastodom #CdnPoli #CanPoli #Fediverse #Government #PublicOwnership

TGIF! We got 40 more signatures on #e4769 this week! We still need one from Nunavut. Any Nunavutiat Mastodonians out there!?

Keep Boosting and Sharing and Talking about an #OpenSocialWeb presence for all Canadians to communicate with their Parliamentarians!

644 and rising!

EN: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769
FR: https://www.noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

#Canada #Mastodom #CdnPoli #CanPoli #Fediverse #Government #PublicOwnership

TGIF! We got 40 more signatures on #e4769 this week! We still need one from Nunavut. Any Nunavutiat Mastodonians out there!?

Keep Boosting and Sharing and Talking about an #OpenSocialWeb presence for all Canadians to communicate with their Parliamentarians!

644 and rising!

EN: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769
FR: https://www.noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

#Canada #Mastodom #CdnPoli #CanPoli #Fediverse #Government #PublicOwnership

Logging practices:
"It's basically dead" AI reveals the legacy of decades of logging in Victoria

"An AI-based analysis of 20 years of VicForests’ logging, researchers say, shows the scale of failed regeneration in Victoria’s state forests.The data, which has been shared exclusively with the ABC, suggests that 20 per cent of Victoria’s state forests have not regenerated after logging.... That’s almost 13,000 hectares of state forest the analysis found to be standing in a state of ruin."

"Now the state is shutting its native logging industry in a matter of weeks, and the forests that were once given to Victoria’s state-run logging agency, VicForests, are being returned to the public."

"By law, the logging agency is required to regenerate the areas it has logged and hand them back to the public in a healthy state. But until now, how much that has actually happened has largely been a mystery."

“VicForests is definitely doing a dodgy job, pretty much as they’ve done for the best part of the last 20 years.... We have a biodiversity problem, we have a carbon problem, we have a water problem, we have a fire risk problem,” Professor Lindenmayer
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/ai-analysis-finds-failed-forest-regrowth-after-logging-/103153614
#logging #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #VicForests #failure #destruction #compaction #machinery #TimberMining #regeneration #PublicOwnership #liability #StopLogging #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #Bushfires #ClimateEmergency #biodiversityCrisis #extinctions