In his annual ‘State of the State’ address to the Tasmanian Parliament on 4th March, Tasmania’s Premier the Hon. Jeremy Rockliff MP announced that he had asked me to provide the Government with advice as to whether it should consider selling any of its state-owned enterprises (other than Hydro Tasmania, the state-owned electricity generation company, which he explicitly excluded from consideration in this context).

On Wednesday 5th March, I spoke with ABC Radio Hobart and Statewide Tasmania’s “Mornings” presenter Leon Compton about how I would be approaching this task: Saul Eslake will carefully assess the possible privatisation of Tasmanian government businesses – ABC listen