What a great and insightful post this was 10 full years ago!
Yes, the NBN is a total fiasco, as all other large national projects have been like the submarines, the jet fighters, the helicopters, the privatisation of the electrical grid. There must be some seriously incompetent bureaucrats making recommendations for corrupt narcissistic politicians being misdirected by very powerful lobby groups that make billions every single time.
It is a total embarrassment that we loot the taxpayers over and over again to deliver an absolute crap outcome and it DOES NOT MATTER which party is in government. I suspect due to the bureaucrats and the lobbyists.
