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Luke Costin

Port, road sales drive 'pain' in cost-of-living crisis

The Port of Newcastle has long wanted to diversify away from coal and expand its container market. (Darren Pateman/AAP PHOTOS)

The cost-of-living crisis is worse in NSW because of sales of public assets and creation of private monopolies at ports, the state's treasurer says.

Several privatisation contracts, including $6.8 billion deals to sell Sydney's Port Botany and the ports of Kembla and Newcastle, were published for the first time on Thursday.

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