Claybro, I put the same question to you!claybro wrote:Dog, do you actually believe what you write, or is it just designed to draw a response?Dog wrote:A well known SA analogy and example of poor Liberal economic management is the southern expressway, now costing a Labor government $450 m to fix the half built road that probably would have only cost us $200m to build properly in the first place!
The State Bank had lost over two billion dollars under a Labor government that had foolishly assumed that the State Bank's auditors hadn't said there was a problem therefore there wasn't a problem. But the idea that SA was near bankruptcy was a Liberal Party invention that caused nearly as much damage!As an example of your complete political bias you state the above. Have you forgotten that at the time of the one way Southern expressway, the state was recovering from near bankruptcy as a result of the complete mis-management of the State Bank under a Labor state government.
Managed to complete means didn't cancel. Commendable, but hardly an impressive achievement. And the new railcars were originally only leased until the Federal (Labor) government funded a purchase of them. The state Labor government had made the mistake of buying more diesel railcars instead of electrifying the system (although that decision was made on departmental advice).Despite this, during this period and what is often conveniently overlooked is that the Liberal state government managed to complete the Heysen Tunnels and Mt Barker freeway, a massive undertaking albeit with federal funding as well. Also, and surprisingly for a Liberal government, completed replacement of the whole suburban rail fleet.
We were told at the time that provision had been made for it to be duplicated eventually. They failed to tell us the full story: the bridges weren't designed with duplication in mind, and the eventual duplication cost far more than building it right in the first place would have.The "one way" expressway was only ever designed as a stop gap measure, with financial constraints in mind, and to try to win votes down South. So please present the full story.
Would that by any chance be word from the Murdoch press trying to minimize the threat to Foxtel's monopoly?Labor governments have presided over some of the greatest financial disasters in our history. As for the NBN, don't believe that should Labor win the election, it will continue to be rolled out as promised. Word is, the whole project is in such disarray, that even a Labor government will need to go back to the drawing board.
The Opposition's NBN plan is very like a one way expressway - much less useful for a slight cost saving, and will eventually have to be upgraded to FTTH at a much greater cost than doing it right to begin with.
