The dirty little secrets of the NBN that Conroy has been trying to hide are slowly being exposed.

"Union officials say NBN Co failed to prepare workers for asbestos hazards. - THE federal government agency building the National Broadband Network is being blamed for exposing workers to asbestos risks amid revelations it was warned two years ago to act on the danger."

The costs of the $50bn project ($37.5bn +11bn for Telstra access) is already far behind schedule (190 000 houses passed projected in June compared to early promises of 750 000) and the costs sky rocketing to levels approaching $100bn (based on estimates by companies experienced in this work), but with this little nugget that Conroy failed to disclose, the delays and costs are going to skyrocket even further.

This is gold plated proof of why the world's best practice of fiber to the node as proposed by the Coalition will be faster, cheaper, and safer.

Shadow Minister - Another Labor failure, regretably I believe this one will pale in comparison the the NDIS blowout when it comes in and everyone from suppliers, doctors and then the lawyers stick there nose in the trough.
All that before some of the people themselves start to rort it then tell there friends how to do it.

Dear SM,

Why is the Liberal Party accusing the government of
responsibility for Telstra's asbestos problem?
Telstra has existed since the early telephone days
and operated under governments of all persuasions.
If you're blaming Labor today, so too you should blame
Howard's Liberal government for doing nothing during
their period in government when asbestos issues were
at their height.

Playing politics during this time is simply irresponsible.
At least the government is doing all it can to fix this
problem. Shame on you - you and your pathetic party will
use anything to besmirch, this government. So hypocritical
considering the period of the Howard government. Both the
PM and the government were hurled out of office. With
good justification.

Lexi - Idiotic reply, if the Government did the job properly they would have known that it potentially would be a problem and factored it into the total cost.

Do you agree or not?

Or maybe they did know but like the true cost of economic invaders they thought they could hide costs.

Dear Philip,

We're talking about the asbestos problem here.

I agree with you. If the Liberal government under Howard
did their job properly regarding asbestos in the Telstra
pits then we would NOT have the problem today. And we
would NOT be having this discussion today.

Lexi - Right Howard dropped the ball and did not do it right, but Labor were either incompetent and did not know or remember therefore the cost was not factored into the overall cost.

So to me they are both negligent, 1 possibly even deceitful.