I'm labelling your like-minded group of politicians Mike - as they have a propensity to smugly label conservatives with some fairly tasteless and cynical terms. "Your" is a collective term in this context. If you feel that I've singled yourself out, then I apologise, because that's not the case.
As I said, I'm satisfied that the base technology would work if implemented. What more do you want? Whether it can be managed properly, we'll see. Maybe... not holding my breath though. The point that extreme proponents of the NBN are still missing is that the business case is, has and was never clearly established beyond reasonable doubt - like every other time a business case has been recently requested - only to be met with deriding and derogatory remarks and doing nothing more than neatly deflecting the question. Sheesh! No other government I know of in our recent past has ever neglected to recognise the absolute importance of providing this. "Because it's a great idea" isn't enough.
The Snowy Mountains scheme is a parallel here - and the planning that proceeded the building of this monumental, country-changing scheme was nothing short of monumental in itself. They'd put recent NBN justification efforts to absolute shame. As a side point, if I recall, Allan Jones did a pretty decent job in rallying support behind people like me who didn't want to see the Snowy scheme sold off to the Chinese for pittance.
Oh yes... and add "mooooving fooorwud" to your list...
