Nbn And All That Pigeons Come Home To Roost

[Aloysius]

<p style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The Abbott government's pared-back broadband plan is three times more cost effective than Labor's ambitious scheme and would leave Australians $16 billion better off, according to the first independent cost-benefit analysis of the national broadband network.

<p style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);">In a scathing verdict on the Rudd and Gillard governments' plan to introduce fibre directly to 93 per cent of premises, the cost benefit analysis finds the policy is so expensive it would barely leave the community any better off in net terms than if broadband investment remained frozen at present levels.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/p...z3BXWlQm3c

 

 

 

Oh dear, a Mining Tax that didn't work, an electricity tax that lost jobs, Batts that killed people, and now the independent cost benefit analysis that The ALp refused to do has shown why they refused.

 

The numbers never added up - "another fine mess you've got us into Laurel Kevvie and Hardy Julia. "  With apologies to Laurel and Hardy.

 

Don't go looking for the taxpayers money they wasted - it's gone!