PPPs: Business welfare or ‘WA Inc’?

Date: 23 August 2002

PPPs: Feeding the big end of town?

Evatt Foundation Breakfast Seminar on PPPs

Like ducks in a shooting gallery, Australia's State Labor governments have lined up behind so-called public-private partnerships (PPPs), and business lobby groups are baying for action.

But is private ownership of public schools and hospitals in the public interest? Why are PPPs so deeply unpopular in the UK?

Are PPPs just a disguised form of business welfare, designed to prop up Labor support at the big end of town?

Are the State Labor governments lining up for more versions of 'WA Inc' type financial scandals?

The issues will be discussed at the Evatt Foundation's breakfast seminar on PPPs on Monday morning at Sydney's Southern Cross Hotel.

The speakers will be Ms Maree O'Halloran, President, NSW Teachers' Federation and Dr Christopher Sheil, School of History, University of NSW and author of Water's Fall: Running the Risks with Economic Rationalism (Pluto Press).

Mr David Carey, Federal Secretary of the State Public Sector Federation (SPSF), will chair the seminar.

The talk will take place in the Macquarie Room of the Southern Cross Hotel, on the corner of Elizabeth and Goulburn Streets.

Breakfast will be served from 7.30 am, the seminar will commence at 8.00 am, and the discussion will conclude on the dot of 9.00 am.

For further information

Contact:	Fay Gervasoni
Union:	The Evatt Foundation
Phone:	02 9385 2966
Contact Mobile:	0412 803457
Fax:	02 9385 2967
Email:	evatt@unsw.edu.au
WWW:	http://evatt.labor.net.au/events/18_20020812.html

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