http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/public-schools-slugged-double-the-price-for-ber-projects/story-fn59niix-1225903680753

Here we go again. As in Victoria, the parts of the BER that Julia Gillard's team managed twice as much as anyone else's.

If there was any doubt that the Labor party was lost in the economic wilderness, here it is.

They couldn't organise a booze up in a brewery!

And The Australian couldnt lie straight in bed.

Sorry mikk the Australian can lie any place any time.
Shadow minister has an indifference to truth but the tide is swinging back to Labor.
Seems lies and mud throwing are not working and SM is miffed.

19/5/13 Expect Us

Come on SM you are so desperate to push this line and it gets no where. Stop quoting news paper articles that seem to have a similar problem.

Refer to the BER interim report.

NSW catholic schools, 725 projects at an average cost of $1 244 137.94.
NSW Independent Schools, 327 projects at $1 480 122.34
NSW Government Schools, 2366 projects at $1 278 951.82

Yes i know there is more to it and there has been some issues but not even vaguely along the lines that you so desperately want to exist.
Down load report at http://www.bertaskforce.gov.au/pages/publications.aspx

Nairbe,

If you read the report, and look at the cost comparisons, it actually confirms the Australian's story.

The NSW public school buildings were roughly 150% to 200% of the cost of similar size buildings in the private sector. This is not even considering the higher requirements of the independent schools' buildings.

Also, only 19% of public BER projects started on time, and apparently 40% is still unspent, much of the "stimulus" occurred when the economy was far from recession.

Looking back at the stimulus spending, the assessment is that:
- Far too much was spent,
- Most of the spending occurred too late,
- What was spent was managed badly and achieved poor value for money.
- Economic infrastructure was ignored (transport etc)

In the words of my son: An Epic Fail.