It is worrying that the private finance tail seems now to be wagging the public infrastructure dog.

Rigorous transparent examination of public-private partnerships is essential, writes Graeme Hodge.

Ministerial accountability has indeed reached an all time low. But not over the AWB corruption scandal. Over the frenzy of public-private partnerships. Last week, when I was presenting evidence in Sydney to the cross-city tunnel inquiry about the fictions of public-private partnerships and how the global evidence on these is different to the spin put out by governments, Victorian Treasurer John Brumby...

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