[Visionary (David)]

Gillard and her cabinet should be held personally responsible for the horrendous waste of the NBN. Australia is the most sparsely populated inhabited continent upon Earth. The NBN was not specified to provide a communications system it was specified to win an election and it did.
Australia could have easily afforded 2 or 3 CERN's at the cost of the NBN. Imagine if we had directed a 1/3 or less of the total NBN waste and directed towards the construction of the worlds leading Physics Laboratory!
The marketplace was always going to deliver faster internet speeds, it always has and always will. The only legacy value delivered via the NBN was an additional term of a highly unpopular, machiavellian Government.
I am not putting this forward for Partizan reasons, any Gov who offered the Australian people the opportunity to host the World's premier Physics Laboratory would have my vote.
The NBN was simply an unimaginative desperate folly designed to elicit votes from a scientifically naive electorate.
As the NBN was designed to maintain incumbency then those who benefited financially from the additional term of office should be held personally responsible for the cost overruns, cost overruns that were inevitable.