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Rod Sims says government greed risks privatisation mandate
Matthew StevensColumnistAustralian governments risk erosion of their social licence to privatise state-owned assets if they continue their collective focus on price maximisation rather than on seeding broader and demonstrable efficiency benefits across the economy.
This view was put with unusual clarity and force in an overlooked, unreported speech delivered last Thursday evening by the chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Rod Sims.
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