Absolutely we do”, while claiming to be listening to communities whose health, land and livelihood are being destroyed by coal seam gas.

Last year’s ICAC findings of corruption in the state Liberal Party with MPs accepting illegal donations from developers is unprecedented.

Twelve MPs were either forced to resign or sit on the cross benches under Mike Baird.

Now, with only 29 per cent public approval, Mike Baird and Andrew Constance plan to lease 49 per cent of the public’s poles and wires infrastructure to foreign corporations, possibly State Grid Corp of China.

A 2014 introductory meeting between Mr Constance and State Grid to discuss “investment in NSW” was reported by the China Daily on March 6.

Tony Abbott’s recent trade deal with China, containing an investor state dispute settlement clause, raises important questions about the Premier and Treasurer’s claim that electricity prices will not rise under foreign ownership.

The ISDS clause gives the Chinese government, or any foreign corporation, the legal right to sue our governments if regulations threaten corporate/shareholder future profits.

According to Professor Sharon Beder (University of Wollongong), “the buyers of government assets and services have mainly been large transnational corporations that have squeezed out their competition with little interest in the welfare of local citizens”.

Privatisation is marketed to the public as being good for business, therefore good for the public.

This is a myth. Corp-orate/shareholder profits always trump the public interest.

Maureen Searson

Batemans Bay