Rache,

Thanks for providing a report where the government bureaucracy audits itself.

If you read the details the following is clear, is that the projects were late (18.6% started on time) they cost far more than planned and their relevance to the operations of the schools is not even discussed.

None of which contradicts my previous post.

Really?
"Most(?) of the buildings provided were not primarily what the schools needed, were often(?) incorrectly sized and cost 2x(?) the going price in the free market".

I don't think the report says this but the media certainly suggested it, based on the extrapolation of a small number of cases.
Likewise the scandalous cheques sent to dead people - which would never have been cashed - compared to the over-generous employment inhibiting handouts underway.

Yet despite this "calamity" we somehow managed to avoid a recession and widespread unemployment.

Let's see how Scummo's brilliant bathroom reno strategy saves us all, plus the notion of creating a better trained dole queue.