The only way to make government more efficient is to ban public servants being in unions, & to sunset clauses in all bureaucratic contracts.

% years in private industry for every 5 years in government child minding centers would help give bureaucrats some idea of what work really is.

Turns out my NBN failure was faulty workmanship down the road somewhere, that was washed out by a couple of inches of rain. God help us when we get some real rain, we could be out for months. I was one of a few. Wonderful government workmanship as usual.

Hasbeen,
>The only way to make government more efficient is to ban public servants being in unions,
Silly idea based on a prejudiced few of unions that does not bear any resemblance to how they are today.
Indeed it's also a silly idea based on a prejudiced few of public servants that does not bear any resemblance to how they are today.
You seem to have slept through the 1980 and '90s!

>& to sunset clauses in all bureaucratic contracts.
What would you regard as the defining features of a "bureaucratic contract"?

> % years in private industry for every 5 years in government child minding centers
> would help give bureaucrats some idea of what work really is.
Getting rid of those who are good at their job, based on the delusion that work really is just one thing!

>God help us when we get some real rain, we could be out for months. I was one of a few.
So do you now understand why FTTN is such a bad idea?

> Wonderful government workmanship as usual.
What makes you think the work was done by government employees not contractors?

Aidan,

4G was never meant to be a replacement for hard wired internet.

"It promises mobile data speeds that far outstrip the fastest home broadband network currently available to consumers. With speeds of up to 100 gigabits per second, 5G is set to be as much as 100 times faster than 4G. Low latency is a key differentiator between 4G and 5G."

Installing a 5G tower at each node would supply network speeds equal to the NBN.

>"Remember, to fudge the value for money test so FTTN passed it, they had to use a discount rate of 7% at a time when the RBA cash rate was less than half that and falling!" - That was labor based on its first cost estimate.

>"Across Australia it's similar to the power consumption of Hobart!"
Bollocks

Shadow Minister,

You're an engineer so why don't you get your toolbox out and don your overalls and get out there into the field and fix the NBN for us?

Mr 0,

You're an arts major, why don't you sit on your arse and complain, Oh wait, you're doing that already.

Shadow Minister,

I said elsewhere that you think Arts grads viz archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, philosophers., have no use in society and your comment above shows that what I said is correct.

You think that the only people who have any use in society are those who have vocational education viz engineers, doctors, lawyers, architects, accountants, truck drivers, etc.

I have no problems with that as long as you and people like you are content to go through life not knowing about Arts things like history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, etc.

PS I can think of a host of Arts grads who have done amazing things in their lives as a result of having come up through the Arts. Lawrence of Arabia comes immediately to mind.

If you want to be of help then don your overalls and get off your arse and get out there with your toolbox and start fixing Hasbeen's NBN connection for him.