Senate inquiry into Joe Hockey's state infrastructure billions

By Heath Aston
Updated October 31 2014 - 7:08am, first published October 30 2014 - 7:59pm
Speed bump: Mike Baird's election pledge to privatise half of NSW's electricity assets for federal assistance has been stalled by the Senate's inquiry. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Speed bump: Mike Baird's election pledge to privatise half of NSW's electricity assets for federal assistance has been stalled by the Senate's inquiry. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

The Senate has put a speed bump in the way of NSW Premier Mike Baird's major election pledge, the $13 billion sell-off of nearly half the state's electricity assets in returns for billions of dollars of federal assistance for new infrastructure.

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