Privatisation

Every man and his dog – and there are plenty of dogs involved in this story – has a reason the NSW Government went down so spectacularly at the weekend. But really there is only one: NSW Labor is simply excellent at what it does.

The NSW Right is – or at least was – such a supreme political and campaigning machine that it wins not only more often than the Liberals but more often than it should for its own good.

In the last 35 years in NSW Labor allowed only a hiccup of Liberal rule before it broke the back of the Greiner Government in 1991 after a truncated three-year term and then sent it to Coventry for 16 years at the next election.

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Somewhere in Sydney a punter is $30 million richer and doesn’t yet know.  NSW Lotteries is trying hard to find them. They’ve publicised it in the media and spoken discreetly to the agent who sold the ticket.  They’re keen to break the good news to their very lucky customer, and sincere and thorough in their efforts to do it.

This time next week the Lotteries will be owned by a private corporation which has also bought itself the right to keep that prize if they can’t find the person.

Leaving aside that this appears to be against the law that made the sell-off of Lotteries possible, how hard would you try to find a winner if you could pocket the money yourself if you can’t find them?  How hard would you make it to claim a prize?

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