FormulaNova said..Flying Dutchman said..The tide has turned it seems.
I don't even need to watch this to know what it's about:
Clearly it is idiots turning around saying "you should have done this", "you shouldn't have done this", "I would have done...".
All complete bull****. Hindsight is 20/20 and anyone that thinks they can speak from a point of authority is a fool.
I heard Mark McGowan on the radio yesterday answering why so much was spent on RAT tests. He said pretty much the same thing; in that you cannot second guess these things.
Is that the difference between people? Some know that they couldn't have known, and the others saying what they would have done, after the fact?
Fools.
Be-jeeze, FN really ?????
$3m was initially authorised for RAT test spend in WA. It blew out to $580M (the cost of two new hospitals) without any further admin, oversight, review or assessment.
The Auditor General just published a report where they found (amongst other things) the spend on RAT tests was:
"without demonstrable evidence of clear, considered and co-ordinated planning or ongoing advice as to the necessity of the expenditure""I have never before witnessed such escalation in the cost of a program over such a short timeframe, occurring with a lack of due consideration of the impacts, or without a record of anyone pausing to ask what level of procurement was sufficient and whether this had been achieved"...that the WA Dept. of Finance spent $140M on RAT tests without checking with the Dept. of Health about the fact they had already spent $440M and didn't need any more.
...and that about $370M of the tests will now be dumped in the bin, having already handed out as many as they could where-ever and to whoever they could off load them on to.
.......But... FN says this is all rubbish and the Auditor General is a fool.
Option 1) Believe what the independent Auditor General says in a report that took months to research and compile
Option 2) Believe the partisan politician trying to cover up how much he **** -up in a 3 minute radio interview
....only FN could go with Option 2).