The Colonial Post Office

Malcolm Abbott () and Bruce Cohen ()
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Malcolm Abbott: Stanley College

Chapter Chapter 4 in Monopoly Control, 2023, pp 69-86 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The first networknetwork-based government enterprise to be established in Australia after the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney in 1788 was a postal servicepostal services. Even today the postal servicepostal services in Australia is still under government ownershipgovernment ownership, long after many other businesses have been privatized. From the earliest days of the New South Wales colony the postal servicepostal services played a crucial role in the colony’s development, and later was followed by equivalents in each of the other colonies. These enterprises were also important in that to a large degree they provided the model for the other government-owned businesses that followed.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-2726-5_4

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