NBN a colossal waste, says John Howard
John Howard has has damned the NBN as a waste of money which demonstrates the Gillard-Labor Government’s incompetence.
In an exclusive live blog for the Australian Online, the former prime minister also said Tony Abbott should lead the Coalition to the next election, that it’s too early to judge Julia Gillard’s performance as prime minister and that Australia did not go into recession during the global financial crisis because of the strong state of the economy from the Howard boom years.
On Labor’s $43 billion project, Mr Howard said “I think the NBN is a colossal waste of money. Senator Conroy said at the weekend that not everybody needed 100MB, that has undermined the whole rationale for the project”.
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