Labor’s single most popular policy was a vague commitment to reinvent the SEC, the old publicly-owned power commission. Why was it such a political winner?
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As industrial relations minister after the Coalition’s crushing 1996 election win, Reith was tasked with drafting and implementing the Howard’s IR policy.
He attacked Victoria s privately owned coal generation businesses, claiming that they have taken $23 billion in profits off pensioners, families and businesses .