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Bill: Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services
Details
Submitted by[?]: Covenanters (IA)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2125
Description[?]:
| An act to give the people what they want: efficient private companies providing them with an superior service with minimal government interference and a chance to become stakeholders. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on energy generation.
Old value:: Private and public power stations exist side-by-side.
Current: Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Proposed: Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Firefighting services.
Old value:: There is a national fire department, funded by the government.
Current: Fire prevention and management is left to the local governments.
Proposed: The government competitively subcontracts firefighting services.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Current: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: The national government controls a vast and comprehensive system of public libraries.
Current: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Proposed: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Current: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:50:55, October 12, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | An act to give the people what they don't want: efficient private companies providing them with an inferior service with minimal government regulation and a chance to become stakeholders in ruthless corporations that care little for their customers, but only wish to increase their own wealth. |
| Date | 14:55:56, October 12, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | If the public sector was so good, people wouldn't choose to give their money to "ruthless corporations that care little for their customers, but only wish to increase their own wealth" would they? By providing a service of its own the government sets a minimum standard which the private sector has to better to attract custom. There's no need for further government interference to hold the private providers back when simple competition should do the trick. |
| Date | 15:09:20, October 12, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | Let us go through this by article: 1. A public energy provider is required for those who can't afford private alternatives, 2. Private firefighting services? Is there an example of this IRL. It makes no sense. 3. Private clinics need to be regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care. 4. Private higher education requires regulation to meet nationally set standards. 5. Local governments, can we trust them? Look at the Kansas education for an example of local government in action. 6. Private schools needs to be regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information. |
| Date | 16:52:36, October 12, 2005 CET | From | United Conservative Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | Get Governments out of our lives! And get commoners out of Government. You know it makes sense! |
| Date | 17:04:40, October 12, 2005 CET | From | United Conservative Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | (1. A public energy provider is required for those who can't afford private alternatives) NO: Pay for what you use -- stop relying on others to give you something for nothing. (2. Private firefighting services? Is there an example of this IRL. It makes no sense.) YES: In Australia they're all over the place, and they have more fires than anyone. (3. Private clinics need to be regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.) NO: Competition means: no good service : no customers! And the highly regulated hospitals of the UK are good? You jest! (4. Private higher education requires regulation to meet nationally set standards.) NO: Nationally set regulation mean governments controlling the minds of children (1984). And education standards have never been so low. (5. Local governments, can we trust them? Look at the Kansas education for an example of local government in action.) YES: The more 'national' and 'international' we make the bodies govern us, the less democratic, authoritarian and bureaucratic they become. It is the antithesis of democracy. (6. Private schools needs to be regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.) NO: It is government schools that need to ensure that they teach adequate skills - because they DON'T! Get with it! Vote for smaller government, devolved authority, proper competition and making people responsible for their own lives. DOWN WITH THE NANNY STATE! You know it makes sense. |
| Date | 22:53:00, October 12, 2005 CET | From | Seosavists Republican party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | You know it makes sense. UCP NOTHING you say makes sence |
| Date | 00:56:52, October 13, 2005 CET | From | United Conservative Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | At least I can spell. Sence? I don't think you have the right to comment on another's sense, unless you can spell it. Uneducated people should be debarred from voting! Or holding office. You know it makes sense! |
| Date | 03:27:21, October 13, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | UCP, I have never seen any private firefighting services in Australia. There are volunteer firefighters, but that is different. And its not that we have more fires, its that our bushfire season is one of the harshest. |
| Date | 11:03:53, October 13, 2005 CET | From | United Conservative Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | Volunteer firefighters are NOT government. They are privately funded .. mostly by businesses in rural areas and by selling raffles in pubs. Proving: that GOVERNMENTS do not have to run these organisations. And Australia is always burning. I look out my window and see palls of smoke from the many fires in the district as we speak. Not like that in Sweden. |
| Date | 11:12:52, October 13, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | Sweden? |
| Date | 15:01:08, October 13, 2005 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | Exactly. Sweden? |
| Date | 15:13:56, October 13, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | Is he saying he lives in Sweden, or does he believe I do? |
| Date | 00:07:08, October 14, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | He's saying the climate's different in Sweden so there aren't as many fires as in Oz. |
| Date | 06:20:38, October 14, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Privatisation/Deregulation of Utilities and Public Services |
| Message | That is true, over here nearly half the year is bushfire season, and it usually gets pretty rough. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 534 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 216 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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