Labor kept quiet about another $1.4 billion NBN blowout

[nero_bolt]

Labor LIES

Labor knew its NBN plans were blowing out - again - by up to $1.4 billion but kept the news secret:

A CABINET briefing document obtained by The Weekend Australian confirms the Rudd government was aware of significant risks to the National Broadband Network rollout and that delays would strip $1.4 billion in revenues throughout the election campaign.

The summary of a cabinet submission by then communications minister Anthony Albanese for the meeting scheduled for July 22 ... [said:] “Given existing delays and the emerging industrial issues, we consider the rollout forecasts are questionable...”

Mr Albanese was pressed during the election campaign on his knowledge of this corporate plan, notably in a debate on ABC’s Lateline program on August 12…

Lateline host Emma Alberici...(:) “Have you got a date for receiving it?”

“We have not received—well, that’s up to the board, but we have not received the final business plan,” said Mr Albanese.

What a disaster. The politicians responsible should be hounded out of office. Yet one is now Labor’s defence spokesman

[freakiness]

The revenues were reduced because of the delays caused by the asbestos issues that Telstra accepted responsibility for. Not because of some sinsiter plot to deceive and rip off the people.

[lakeland27]

additional to that , its turnbull who's responsible now. he's the minister.

[cherry*135]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

additional to that , its turnbull who's responsible now. he's the minister.

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Are you living in the past, OP? Time to move on and find out what sort of hash up the LNP make of the NBN project now.

I  the NBN.

[cherry*135]

Links in opening posts are useless if they are behind a paywall.

[silverfaun]

Albo was put on the spot on Lateline by Turnbull about the report & albo said it was only a draft.

Labor wouldn't release the report because it was election time & they wanted to go to the people with something, anything, to show that they had done something without stuffing it up.

Albo sat there squirming because Turnbull made a fool out of him, Albo knew it but couldn't defend himself.

The thing is about this report, it was so damaging that they would'nt release it prior to election because they knew it was another nail in their coffin, like they need any more.

As for moving on & not commenting on the Labor disaster that we all suffered through.

Well if you don't get your history right you never learn from the mistakes of that history, sticking your head in the sand hoping that the voters will forget if only nobody brings it up is an Ostriche's  view of what happened.

[freakiness]

The report has been availables for weeks. It's mostly all good. 

Did you know that more people are ordering a service than expected and more people are ordering the higher tier plans than expected?

Albo wasn't squirming on the lateline I saw. He was relatively new to the portfolio and Turnbull was talking over the top of everyone.

[windrake]

Turnbull is no longer the Darling

[freakiness]

Turnbull never was a darling.

[spotweldersfriend]

Snake oil salesman.