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Anthony Albanese is due to arrive in Laos on Wednesday night.

NBN is the government’s $60 billion investment that will never be sold

Realistically, the government would crystallise a loss of the order of tens of billions of dollars if the NBN was sold – and that assumes someone would want to buy it.

  • Elizabeth Knight

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Not for sale: the government plans to introduce laws to keep the NBN in public hands.

Not for sale: Labor moves to keep NBN in public hands

After weeks of debate about the Middle East, the government will try to force the opposition’s hand on the $51 billion internet network.

  • David Crowe
Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas.

‘Economic vandalism’: Labor members decry Victoria’s next privatisation plan

Grassroots Labor members say they are “deeply concerned” by the mooted sell-off of the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

  • Broede Carmody and Rachel Eddie
Treasurer Tim Pallas is in talks with private firms to gauge their interest in running part of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria.

Births, Deaths and Marriages – and more? Victoria’s quiet review of its public assets

Treasury sought advice from investment banks earlier this year as part of a review to see how much money could be raised from privatisation of public assets.

  • Broede Carmody and Sarah Danckert
The NSW government plans to increase coal royalties.

‘Secret’ deals mean NSW taxpayers liable for port privatisations

A potential liability of up to $4.3 billion is contained in previously secret deals that will be revealed by NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey on Thursday.

  • Alexandra Smith
When the dust settles, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce’s tenure might be remembered more positively.

Joyce did what’s expected of any private company’s CEO. That’s the problem

The Spirit of Australia, by government decree, was profit maximisation. Joyce was acting within that spirit.

  • Peter Hartcher
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Roch Cheroux

Water fight gets dirty as boss ‘lumps union sites with gambling, porn’

A Sydney Water industrial dispute has intensified as the union calls for its managing director to be sacked, claiming he banned employees from viewing union websites.

  • Max Maddison and Michael McGowan
Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto.

Integrity experts back Coalition calls for Andrews to rein in spending on consultants

Opposition Leader John Pesutto wants the Victorian government to stop sending so much work to outside consultants, and has promised tougher anti-corruption measures under a Coalition government.

  • Royce Millar and Sumeyya Ilanbey
Sydney bus

Multibillion-dollar secret bus deals take us for a ride

That the outgoing NSW government entered secret contracts for $5 billion on privatised bus services just before the election is disturbing at a number of levels.

  • Geoffrey Watson
Bus delays and cancellations have plagued commuters over the past two years.

Deals on the bus: Sydney locked into $5 billion in contracts until 2030s

The previous state government signed multiple long-term deals with private bus operators in the months leading up to the election.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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