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Originally Posted by Smirnoff
^^ yep I hate John Brumby, hate him like hell. Everytime I see him or Lyn Kosky on TV, my blood pressure triples. He and his bud Bracksy had 10 years to fix these transportation issues, bloody 10 years. Ofcourse, they did absolutely nothing except using lip service to make it appear they are doing something.
I'll leave it here, because the stuff I could say about this mob will no doubt get me banned!!!!
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These sort of comments a the greatest pile of crap I have read in a long while. It is extremely easy to blame Government for every woe and heart ache we have but when it all boils down to it we would be the first to complain if the government of the time increased costs to each and everyone of us to cover the type of situations we are having at the moment. Public outcry would dwarf the outcry at the moment if we were each charged an extra hundred dollars a year to prevent these once in a hundred year events.
It is also easy for government to turn around and blame the corporate sector for failing to meet unrealistic targets during unusual events such as this. Corporate Australia will only invest money if it can see a return on expenditure and government were the first ?corporate entity to sell off all these services, rail, water, electricity etc because they couldn't afford to keep it and in most cases couldn't afford to maintain it.
Take a look at Electricity supply. Some of you may remeber Jeff selling off the state electricity commission within Victoria because it had grown into an entity which was bigger and more powerful than government. It also was the only state instrumentality which made an operating profit each and every year and propped up several other instrumentalities. It was the logical thing to sell as a profit could be expected from it's sale. In the process, the expansion and future planning for the states electricity supplies were forgotten. No corporate entity is going to feed money into future supply protection, ie building new stations until such time as a new station will show a profit on it's balance sheet.
Privatisation was good from a point of keeping costs down and government regulation has done this, but to future proof the state is the exact opposite.
No body complained about public transport until petrol prices and parking costs drove them onto the trains and trams. Support and use is the only way to justify upgrades to a very expensive and quite vast system which was sold in a very poor condition. At least the government of the day imposed some performance targets on the public transport network.
All these events are short lived. Will be forgotten about by most people in a short period and when it all boils down events such as this are unexpected and near impossible to fix or prevent without you and I paying very dearly for it.
Australias infrastructure is screwed and the blame must lie with all governments old and new. Compared to the rest of the world our public networks are a joke.
Who can we blame if blame must be apportioned. NO ONE BUT OURSELVES. We vote them in ,we wear there stuff ups.
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