Graham Gorrel's Friday On My Mind | OPINION, April 21, 2017

April 21 2017 - 8:00pm
Land sell-off a new low for government
Land sell-off a new low for government

IT WOULD be difficult in recent times to find a more substantial, critical and accurate assessment about the folly of political privatisation, especially that engineered by the Coalition, than The DA's editorial, "Registry sell-off gambling with the state's future". It referred to the Berejiklian Government's decision to lease the 150-year-old land titles registry office to a private consortium for $2.6 billion which, the editorial suggested, "must rank as a new low watermark"; further, the fact of privatising a monopoly service that played such a central role in recording the sale of land in NSW was simply unconscionable". Spot on!

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