The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment. It's time the grid returned to public hands - The Conversation

It’s time for a national grid that serves the public and meets the challenges of a warming world. A new government-owned and operated body should take control of Australia’s electricity system.

A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents is to end to the failed experiment of the natio… [+6472 chars]

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