[LINK] Fwd: Labor to dump Access Card

[Daniel Rose]

Eleanor Lister wrote:
> Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> fyi - Another reason to vote ALP.
>>
> 
> yes, Labor would never introduce its own scheme, calling it something
> user friendly like, say, the "Australia Card".   never ever.
> 
>>> http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22592265-15306,00.html
>>>
>>> Labor to dump Access Card
>>> Karen Dearne and Ben Woodhead | October 16, 2007
>>>
>>> A LABOR government would scrap the contentious $1.1 billion Access Card
>>> project, human services shadow minister Tanya Plibersek has confirmed.
>>> "We have said all along that if the Access Card had not been introduced
>>> by the time of the election we would not proceed with it," Ms Plibersek
>>> said.
> 
> oh, if it had been introduced in time that would have been ok, then?
> 

In that case, they would be trying not to scrap all the money already spent.  People can be remarkably persistent about treating sunk costs like real money, it's a factor in IT project failure.

"We can't possibly stop now, we've spent billions!"