Alex Gallacher (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. In 2015, in a dissenting report to the Economics References Committee on the matter of the privatisation of state and territory assets and new infrastructure, the minister said:

… continued public ownership of a business operation can place the Government in a conflicted position, as both regulator and provider of services.

Does the minister still believe that governments cannot be trusted to operate public assets?