Faith is not good enough for NBN

Comments on Jennifer Hewett “Stepping out on faith rather than fact”, 21/12/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/stepping-out-on-faith-rather-than-fact/story-e6frg9px-1225974158720

For a national project of the scale of $43 billion, is faith a good enough criterion for a responsible government to decide to go ahead?

It appears this may have some similarity to or the attributes of the Wall Street Madoff ponzi scandal.

There must be more independent and more convincing studies on the costs and benefits of the NBN and on alternative technologies to prove whether it would be economically sound or not.

The government, already wasted so much of taxpayers' money on the BER and pink batts, will commit gross negligence if it doesn't commission independent analyses.