The NBN Seems To Have Become Enough Of A Liability That We Even Have The PM Making Excuses!

This appeared last week:Life in the slow lane: Australia has slower internet than KenyaAngus Whitley Published: October 4 2017 - 4:13PMThe $49 billion National Broadband Network was meant to spearhead a digital revolution. Instead, the botched project risks becoming a poster child for government mismanagement.Australia's biggest-ever infrastructure investment has turned into a political football, plagued by cost overruns and construction delays.With the network years behind the original schedule and only about half finished, Australia has slumped to 50th place on a global ladder of internet speeds, behind Kenya and a string of former Soviet bloc nations.Public frustration with the project is boiling over amid mounting criticism that politics is trumping policy across a host of areas from housing to energy and damaging economic prospects."We are really an example of how not to do it," said Paul Budde, a Sydney-based former adviser to the United Nations on the social and economic... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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