"TREASURY has warned cabinet it needs to give "very careful consideration" to the National Broadband Network's implementation study over coming months.

The department argued that the project carried significant risks to the national balance sheet.

The advice to cabinet, originally suppressed when Treasury's incoming brief to the government was released under Freedom of Information laws in September, was revealed yesterday.

The release of the advice comes after the Department of Communications and Broadband revealed in its brief to the government that the company overseeing the rollout of the NBN disagreed with the McKinsey-KPMG implementation study over recommendations relating to the design of the high-speed broadband network and the nature of the prices and products NBN Co would offer to customers."

So the government has been suppressing information from its own departments that the NBN is financially shaky. How long do we have to wait before the whole house of cards collapses.

How long do we have to wait before the whole house of cards collapses.
Shadow Minister,
It already has collapsed. It's just that many can't tell that we're not looking at the real thing anymore, it's merely a hologram.

The nature of the beast is revealed in the way that these many new
applications are never described in detail. It is all airy fairy stuff.
The latest is recovering patients could be at home instead of in the
hospital.
If such a patient needed 100 Mbit monitoring, then they should be in
the Intense recovery ward not at home.
One so called application is sending high definition xrays to city
specialists. Are they suggestion they will be sent from your home ?
Rubbish, the xrays machines are in the hospitals, not in every house
in the land.

Someone tell me what are these 100Mbit applications !
Don't tell me telecommuting either, that needs similar bandwidth that we have now.
Just another snake oil salesman pitch.

It is not good politics to hide the business plan as the Govt is now doing. It has something to hide obviously.

The extent that the Government is prepared to subsidise use of the NBN has not been admitted as yet. Even when it is, it will be understimated grossly, as conning is the game that the Govt loves playing

The Govt is hypocritical to claim that the NBN is justified because it would improve national productivity, when it ignores evaluation of the productivity of the capital expenditure involved. The Govt ought to look seriously at the competing demands for capital. It should realise that expenditure on the NBN would deny essential programs in vital areas such as infrastructure and health, from going ahead.