Yes, I guess I'd just say, there's more than one way to skin a cat. And if the cat's already state funded and directed to act in the public interest, then the most straightforward approach would seem to be mandating that it skin itself. (There are infinite ways to torture a metaphor, of course.)
Even though it is publicly owned, it is for-profit. IIRC it made something like 300 million AUD last year in profit and its sale price would be about 7 billion AUD.
The Nationals' concern is that rural mail service will disappear because of high costs. But that outcome can be achieved by other policy methods and subsidies, such as tax breaks for rural letter delivery. The main competitor to letters is email, and that falls under broadband policy - which has been retarded by the Nationals seeking rural perks.
'Sworn to no party, and of no sect am I.' Frederick Vosper's republican motto.
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