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Power station sale

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian Source: AAP

The New South Wales Government is under fire after it was revealed a power station it sold for a million dollars two years ago has now been valued at nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.


At the time the Government struggled to find a buyer for the coal-fired Lake Macquarie station but since then wholesale electricity prices have soared. Premier Gladys Berijiklian was then state treasurer. She says the deal made sense at the time.


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