Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns argue and interject over privatisation, infrastructure and public sector pay
It’s proved a vote winner in the past but Labor is going to this election promising to end privatisation. It points to the costs of those privatisations for voters – such as the extensive tolling network across Sydney’s motorways – and the damage to state revenue from the sale of public assets.was “flogging off the family jewels and home” to pay for the credit card bill, Minns said, pointing to the state’s $11.4bn deficit.
“You refuse to acknowledge that the M4, for example, will be paid off six times over,” as a result of privatised toll road payments, Minns said to Perrottet during the debate. While Perrottet said he has “no plans” for any sales of public assets, he also would not rule out further privatisation. But the premier is keen to remind voters of the previous NSW Labor government’s record on infrastructure, and Minns was loath to say whether infrastructure projects would be funded by increasing debt.
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