Complete List Of Major Public Assets Sold By Labor And Liberal/Coalition Governments — Federal And State
Finance & Banking
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- BankWest
- State Bank of Victoria
- State Bank of New South Wales
- State Bank of South Australia
- Commonwealth Funds Management
- Rural Finance Victoria
- Housing Loans Insurance Corporation
- Defence Service Homes loan portfolio
Airlines & Aviation
- Qantas
- Australian Airlines
- Melbourne Airport
- Brisbane Airport
- Perth Airport
- Sydney Airport
- Avalon Airport
- Adelaide Airport
- Darwin Airport
- Alice Springs Airport
- Tennant Creek Airport
- Hobart Airport
- Launceston Airport
- Townsville Airport
- Coolangatta Airport
- Canberra Airport
Transport & Rail
- Australian National Rail
- DASFLEET
- V/Line Freight
- QR National
- VicRoads registration and licensing functions
Telecommunications & Media
- Telstra
- AUSSAT
- Radio 5AA
- Australian Multimedia Enterprises
Health & Insurance
- Medibank Private
- Victorian State Insurance Office
Industry & Manufacturing
- CSL Ltd
- Australian Industry Development Corporation
- AMDEL
- Forwood Products
- Portland Smelter Unit Trust
Defence & Strategic Assets
- Australian Defence Industries
- Aerospace Technologies of Australia
- Williamstown Naval Dockyard
- Commonwealth Uranium Stockpile
Energy Generation
- Loy Yang A power station
- Loy Yang B power station
- Hazelwood power station
- Yallourn power station
- Eraring Energy
- Macquarie Generation power stations
- Gladstone Power Station
- Kurnell desalination plant
Electricity Networks & Retail
- Powercor
- United Energy
- Solaris Power
- Powernet Victoria
- Transgrid
- Ausgrid
- Endeavour Energy
- ETSA electricity transmission and distribution assets
Gas & Pipelines
- Moomba-Sydney Pipeline
- Victorian Gas and Fuel Corporation assets
- Gascor
- State Gas Pipeline (Queensland)
- South Australian gas assets
- Pipeline Authority of South Australia
- Heatane Division of Gas & Fuel Corporation
Ports & Maritime
- Port of Melbourne
- Port of Geelong
- Port of Portland
- Port Botany
- Port Kembla
- Port of Newcastle
- Port of Brisbane
- Port of Adelaide
- Regional South Australian ports
- Port of Darwin
- Abbot Point Coal Terminal
Natural Resources & Forestry
- Queensland forestry plantations
- Victorian Plantations Corporation
- Grain Elevators Board
Government Services & Infrastructure
- Commonwealth Accommodation and Catering Services
- Belconnen Mall Shopping Complex
- Victorian TAB
- Queensland Totalizator Agency Board
- Victorian Land Titles and Registry office
- NSW Land and Property Information titles registry
- State Chemistry Laboratory
- Queensland Motorways
Engineering & Other Significant Assets
- Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation
Labor Did It. Liberal/Coalition Governments Did It. Federal Governments Did It. State Governments Did It.
For decades, governments of both major political persuasions have sold, privatised, leased or transferred public assets that Australians spent generations building.
Banks. Airports. Ports. Electricity generators. Electricity networks. Gas infrastructure. Rail. Telecommunications. Insurance. Land registries. Forestry. Defence industries.
Once these assets leave public ownership, Australians don’t just lose the asset. They can also lose the future income, strategic control and public leverage that came with it.
Before politicians tell Australians there is nothing left to sell, perhaps they should explain where everything we already owned went.
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