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bilby commented on the word the zinc bargain
"Ever since the debate in 1916 over the price at which the Hydro-Electric Department had contracted the supply of electricity to the new zinc smelter being constructed by the Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia at Risdon now Lutana, the Tasmanian public has held a keen interest in the relative price of electricity paid by small and large users in Tasmania.
The debate about 'the zinc bargain', as it was known at the time, was arguably the beginning of the ongoing speculation that significant cross-subsidisation exists between different classes of customers. This idea has been fuelled over the intervening years with pricing for large users of electricity lacking all transparency."
- John Hawkins, https://tasmaniantimes.com/2019/12/long-reach-site-westbury-prison-part-2/
December 6, 2019