{"id":2730,"date":"2014-04-10T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T02:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2014-04-10T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T02:27:12","slug":"malcolm-turnbull-getting-on-with-breaking-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/malcolm-turnbull-getting-on-with-breaking-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Turnbull: Getting On With Breaking Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critical of Labor&#8217;s gung-ho approach to the NBN, <a href=\"http:\/\/delimiter.com.au\/2014\/04\/09\/nbn-must-costbenefit-analysis-october-2010-re-print\/\">Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull writes in October 2010<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;Unfortunately for the taxpayer, politicians are particularly prone to making both of them. Attracted to glamorous ribbon-cutting opportunities, politicians love investing taxes in big new projects. And if anyone says &#8216;cost-benefit analysis&#8217;, it is brushed away with a call to &#8216;nation-building&#8217;.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fast-forward to 2014. Now in government, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says of his decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/nbn-switch-without-analysis-about-getting-on-with-it-turnbull-7000028231\/\">begin rolling out a &#8216;Multi-Technology Mix&#8217; model without a cost\/benefit analysis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;The company [NBN] has got to get on.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, we&#8217;ve got to get on! Unlike Malcolm&#8217;s creditability, this NBN isn&#8217;t going to trash itself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Critical of Labor&#8217;s gung-ho approach to the NBN, Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull writes in October 2010: &#8220;Unfortunately&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Malcolm Turnbull: Getting On With Breaking Promises","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}