Renationalisation in Australia

Summary:
I got a message from a student asking about examples of renationalisation in Australia. Here’s my response There hasn’t been much explicit renationalisation of business enterprises in Australia. What we have seen is (a) Public private partnerships (PPPs) being wound up and returned to the public sector. As well as Port Macquarie, some others are mentioned herehttps://grattan.edu.au/news/public-private-hospital-partnerships-are-risky-business/and here on private prisonshttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/26/queensland-to-end-private-jails-experiment-after-scathing-reportand social housinghttp://www.newleafcommunities.com.au/ (b) The government has also re-entered areas of business it had previously privatised. The most important example is the NBN, but there

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