Rambling ramblings of a ramblr

A Coalition government would merge the three government-owned electricity distributors into two - one rural and one urban - to save $400 million to help fund the proposed power rebate, the Opposition Leader, Barry O’Farrell, said yesterday.

Merging electricity giants could save $400m

Barry does a backflip with a little bit of sense announcing a single distributor entity with subsidiaries - not unlike the approach under the ALP Premier Bob Carr.