{"id":8875,"date":"2020-10-26T02:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T02:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2020-10-26T02:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T02:15:18","slug":"privatisation-not-the-solution-to-auspost-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/26\/privatisation-not-the-solution-to-auspost-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIVATISATION NOT THE SOLUTION TO AUSPOST DEBACLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the Australia Post debacle is symptomatic of corporatisation, a problem that would only be made worse by full privatisation, as the Greens call instead for executive salary caps and a winding-back of privatisation.<br \/>\nAt the National Press Club this month, Bandt outlined plans for a major inquiry into the impact of privatisation. This inquiry would include the impact of corporatisation of the public service.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen the corporate model is exposed to be corrupted and scandal-ridden, some who advocated for the failed experiment will double-down and push for the privatisation of Australia Post,\u201d Bandt said.<br \/>\n\u201cOur corporatised public services have been infected with neoliberal ideology and privatisation would only make the problem worse.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cEssential services should be run for the public good. By treating Australia Post as just another business, the government has allowed a \u2018greed is good\u2019 culture to dominate.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Australia Post scandal, made iconic by Cartier watches, is a symptom of a long ideological campaign to corporatise the culture and operations of public services.<br \/>\n\u201cWe should be winding back the corporatisation of our public services. Our wide-ranging inquiry will reveal the full impact of privatisation and corporatisation in this country.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens would also work towards ending so-called \u2018performance-based pay\u2019 for executives. This is a failed experiment. It has not improved performance, but it has eroded a sense of teamwork and it is inconsistent with the role and culture of the public service.<br \/>\nThe Public Governance Performance and Accountability Amendment Executive Remuneration Bill (2017), which the Greens have already tabled would tie executive pay across the public service, including Australia Post, to 5 times the Australia-wide average wage (approximately $420,000).<br \/>\n\u201cWe could have started a culture change years ago, but the bill didn\u2019t get support. We\u2019re looking to put the proposal to cap executive salaries back to Labor and the Crossbench again now,\u201d Bandt said<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/oct\/26\/australias-biggest-companies-are-being-run-by-a-directors-club-study-finds\">New research<\/a>\u00a0from Ownership Matters, released today, showed a \u2018directors club\u2019 in Australia\u2019s biggest corporations.<br \/>\n\u201cIs this the club we want Australia Post to join? The corporate model is one of runaway executive salaries and the \u2018game of mates\u2019. It\u2019s a broken model stemming from a trickle-down agenda and it\u2019s one that the Greens aim to reign in,\u201d Bandt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the Australia Post debacle is symptomatic of corporatisation, a problem that would only be made worse by full privatisation, as the Greens call instead for executive salary caps and a winding-back of privatisation. At the National Press Club this month, Bandt outlined plans for a major inquiry into the impact &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/26\/privatisation-not-the-solution-to-auspost-debacle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PRIVATISATION NOT THE SOLUTION TO AUSPOST DEBACLE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}