This paper updates a 2017 paper​ by the NSW Parliamentary Research Service. It features a timeline of privatisations that have occurred in NSW since 1989, up to the most recent sale of the Westconnex Group in 2021.

The paper also provides a brief overview of recent developments, including the introduction of several pieces of legislation aimed at preventing the privatisation of state-owned assets and two parliamentary committee inquiries that commenced in 202​3.