Labor Waste

Media Release – Malcolm Turnbull Corporate advisor Greenhill Caliburn has admitted “mobile centric” broadband networks such as next-generation wireless could seriously undermine the economic viability of the Gillard Government’s $50 billion National Broadband Network. While the Greenhill Caliburn report provides grudging support for the assumptions underlying the NBN Co business plan, the Government’s advisor concedes [...]

Gillard’s history of back-flips and economic waste highlights the Government’s mismanagement. As a Rudd government minister, Gillard wound back market-based industrial relations reforms — not just Work Choices but reforms from the Coalition’s 1997 IR package negotiated with the Democrats, as well as IR reforms from Keating’s time as prime minister. I am not even [...]

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 [...]

In the same week the Auditor-General exposed Communications Minister Senator Conroy for his recklessness, waste and incompetence the OECD has expressed grave concern about the lack of a cost-benefit-analysis for the $43 billion NBN Mark II proposal. The OECD has rightly said “questions need to be answered” about the lack of a cost of cost-benefit-analysis [...]