After record public asset sales, NSW Liberals repent

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By Leith van Onselen

Less than a year ago, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian wooed a bunch of American business leaders in Washington spruiking the ‘benefits’ arising from the State’s massive asset recycling (privatisation) program:

“When Gladys Berejiklian went through the data on her state you could see people saying, ‘Wow, we want to live there’,” says Business Council of Australia Chief executive Jennifer Westacott, who was one of 22 business leaders in the Australian delegation in Washington…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.