Greens move to stop Snowy sale

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SYDNEY — On April 4, NSW Greens MP and infrastructure spokesperson Sylvia Hale moved in the NSW parliament to stop the state government from selling off the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme.

Hale said: "This government's record on public infrastructure is to sell out the public interest for private profit, as it did with the Cross City Tunnel ... Snowy Hydro Limited is one of the most profitable publicly owned electricity generating corporations in Australia ... [Selling it] raises very serious issues about whether the government is sacrificing the long-term financial health of NSW for a short-term fix to its budget and a boost to its pork barrel for next year's election."

Zoe Kenny

From Green Left Weekly, April 12, 2006.
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