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government spent $400,000 on consultants’ reports before the outsourcing of a Sydney Water asset revealed in an explosive tranche of documents, which Labor has used to accuse the Coalition of wanting to privatise the utility.
But consultants’ reports – including one by Clayton Utz – seemed to reveal consideration of a wider privatisation of the utility. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup
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