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Playing with power.(Power Politics: The Electricity Crisis ''and You)(Book Review)

Publication: Quadrant
Publication Date: 01-JUN-03
Format: Online - approximately 876 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Power Politics: The Electricity Crisis 'and You, edited by John Spoehr; Wakefield Press, 2003, $19.95.

THIS INEPT cri de coeur comes from a South Australian academic who yearns for the days of Tom Playford. Liberal Premier of that state for almost thirty years, Playford nationalised the...

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...state's power industry in the 1940s, using it to underwrite state development and subsidise rural power costs. The Liberal government of the 1990s privatised South Australia's power industry, and John Spoehr, editor of this collection of essays and Executive Director of the Centre of Labour Research at the University of Adelaide, argues that the government short-changed South Australians and deprived them of any significant say in the industry's future.

Spoehr is worried about the loss of power company revenue to the state, the threat...

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