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Paul, highlighting the systemic failure of the Australian political class, I have no doubt in my mind that somehow Turnbull will be held responsible for the sum total of all ills afflicting the NBN.
The Abbott/Turnbull was an ugly mess, but that particular mess but it didn't cost the Australian Taxpayer $50 billion +++
What I strenuously object to is the "get out of jail free" card that was handed to Gillard & Rudd. They caused enormous damage with the ill-considered Taxpayer fiasco that was/is the NBN, yet though they benefited financially (another term of office) they skipped passed the responsibility gate, yet we as Taxpayers cannot skip past the gate, we will all just pay and pay for the NBN.
What could I propose that's better? The market has a habit of sorting these issues out for itself. Rudd/Gillard need to have done nothing, not a single thing and the market would have sorted itself out. History shows us that the country would have been substantially better off if they had both taken a nice big Taxpayer funded holiday for the entirety of their fractured terms.
It is my belief, and I may well be a voice in the wilderness, all politicians should be held individually responsible for atrocious decisions, in much the same way Company Directors are responsible for decisions that act contrary to the interests of the Companies they govern.
It is not good enough that Gillard and Rudd have got off scot-free from a decision that was made at the last moment within the context of a failing electoral campaign so they could claw back a few months of having their behinds on the "big seats".
The NBN was not decided upon to benefit the country, it was nothing more than a thought bubble, an ill-considered, last minute decision to benefit a handful of sitting members.
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