Everyone knows our federal and state governments haven't been spending nearly as much as they should on public infrastructure. But, sorry, the full story isn't nearly that simple.
Adequate and well-functioning infrastructure has an important role to play in the efficiency of the economy by raising the productivity (productiveness) of our labour.
According to figures quoted by Adrian Hart, of BIS Shrapnel, we went through much...
Showing posts with label cost-benefit analysis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cost-benefit analysis. Show all posts
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Monday, August 18, 2014
Stop wasting money on infrastructure
Don't laugh too hard at the ABC's new satire, Utopia, and the wasteful
and appearances-driven antics Rob Sitch gets up to as head of the Nation
Building Authority. It's too close to the truth to be funny.
One of
the foremost areas where governments need to lift the efficiency of
their spending - as opposed to cutting payments to the needy or
short-sighted cost-shifting - is infrastructure. It has become an area
where too...
Monday, November 22, 2010
NBN plan has the signs of a historic stuff-up
I am starting to get a really bad feeling about Labor's plan for a national broadband network. The more it resists subjecting the plan to scrutiny, the more you suspect it has something to hide.
I fear Julia Gillard is digging herself in deeper on a characteristically grandiose scheme her swaggering predecessor announced without thought to its daunting implications, when she should be looking for ways to scale the project down...
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