Originally Posted by
Tuck Mach
I am suprised the case of Air New Zealand has not featured more prominently to illustrate that the purported paradigm of government inefficiency in SOE enterprises was simply ideology and politics mixed together...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11508152
It is a shame, Australian politicians are content to allow Qantas to be simultaneously hamstrung by the provisions of the QSA whilst somehow maintaining that the market ought control it. With nominee companies (foreign) and errant management fighting an IR war no matter what the cost am not quite sure how any 'national interest' or indeed employment would have been preserved...
Maybe PM Trumble could buy 15% of QAN?
Good example. Air NZ plus Qantas' own history from 1947 to 1995 proves that it is ideologically driven to say government ownership = inefficiency.