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Fragment    Next Fragment Monday, 15 November 2010 Page: 2413
Mr HAWKE (7:38 PM) —I want to thank the member for Braddon for
raising the trifecta of reasons as to why we ought to have a
cost-benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network. The
insulation scheme is a fantastic reason why we should think,
pause and carefully consider the impact of government decisions
before we take them. The Building the Education Revolution
scheme and the absolute rush to get projects out and handed to
the New South Wales government meant that, in my electorate of
Mitchell, we had two libraries built for a school of 90 pupils
at the cost of $900,000. That could have been prevented by a
cost-benefit analysis, by rationally examining how we were going
to deliver those services.  The cost of the National Broadband
Network represents the single biggest expenditure of any project
in Australian history, so the member for Br