In this instance we are all free to decide. Although the ABC is not going to miss an opportunity to hit a headline, mostly.
The recent situation with Australia Post, the fallout over $20k all up of watches, and the extreme price of ‘the optic’ has been discussed separately. If there was a tall poppy in that instance I missed it. To me that seemed more about political expediency and positioning.
For the NBN Co, the project is well over budget, late and for many Australian’s not delivering a satisfactory outcome. Related elsewhere customers who were with Telstra or Optus on cable able to access 100Mbps nominal services, now have to move to the NBN and pay more for a slower and lesser service.
Perhaps all those bonuses were reasonably due. Perhaps there were some exemplary outcomes, or critical targets set and achieved. It would aid understanding (transparency) to know just what those targets were, how they related to what the NBN achieved, and why they were not going to be achieved otherwise.
Some bonuses are simply expedient. Others are a genuine reward, or incentive. As the workings of the NBN Co is hidden behind it’s corporate identity and CIC, it’s difficult to really known.
It’s a fair call. Should the two shareholder ministers be cut down instead?
