Water's Fall: Running the Risks with Economic RationalismAcademic examination of the massive rationalisation of Australia's water system in the closing decades of the 20th century. Investigates two major breakdowns: the Big Pong in Adelaide in the autumn of 1996 and the contamination crisis in Sydney in the winter of 1997. Uses the recent breakdowns in our water infrastructure to take the reader deep inside the ideas that govern modern society. Includes illustrations, appendices, notes and index. Author is a Visiting Fellow in the School of History at the University of New South Wales. Previous titles include 'War on the Wharves: A Cartoon History'. Illustrator is a prominent cartoonist who is regularly published in the 'Australian'. |
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Page 37
... competition policy absorbs water The adoption of the national competition policy by all of Australia's govern- ments in 1995 consolidated the directions established by Bob Hawke's 1990-91 special premiers ' conferences and integrated ...
... competition policy absorbs water The adoption of the national competition policy by all of Australia's govern- ments in 1995 consolidated the directions established by Bob Hawke's 1990-91 special premiers ' conferences and integrated ...
Page 38
... competition pack- age's objectives , as assessed by the national competition council . As well as the many measures specified in the other two agreements , the payments— or ' bribes ' — were tied to detailed changes in particular areas ...
... competition pack- age's objectives , as assessed by the national competition council . As well as the many measures specified in the other two agreements , the payments— or ' bribes ' — were tied to detailed changes in particular areas ...
Page 180
... competition policy . When a former manager of Sydney Water noted the " cash cow fiddle " implicit within the commercialisation of the new catchment authority on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald on 26 July 1999 , the Treasurer ...
... competition policy . When a former manager of Sydney Water noted the " cash cow fiddle " implicit within the commercialisation of the new catchment authority on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald on 26 July 1999 , the Treasurer ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Supplying water | 182 |
The rise of economic rationalism | 184 |
Copyright | |
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Adam Smith Adelaide Adelaide's analysis annual argument assessment assets auditor Australian Big Pong Bloch boil-water alert breakdown capital catchment cent central Chapter citizens commercial commercialisation competition contamination crisis context contract corporation's corporatisation Cryptosporidium direct economic rationalism economic rationalism's effectively environmental failure filters firm Friedman Giardia Hayek Ibid increase individual investment John Maynard Keynes lagoons less major managing director Marc Bloch marginal marginalists million minister neoclassical economics neoliberal Nick Greiner NSW Health of-return oocysts operating organisation parasites Peter McClellan political potentially Potts Hill privatisation problem Productivity Commission profit Prospect plant public interest public services rate-of-return reporting rational maximiser relationship responsibility risks self-interest sewage sewerage Sheil social South Australia South Wales sub-managers Sydney Water Sydney's theoretical theory tion transaction costs Treasury treatment plants United Water utility utility's Warragamba Warragamba Dam Water Corporation water supply water systems wrote