It would be stretching it to say that nobody seems to care. But it's probably true to say that not enough people care to do anything about it, such as voting this hopelessly incompetent government out at the next election. This kind of lethargy is one of the problems in Australia - the average person is too mentally lazy to keep themselves up to date with what our government is doing, and to hold them accountable for their actions.
My mention of the drug trade was in reference to another thread on this forum in which one poster attempted to justify the drug trade on the basis of it's economic contribution to Australia. For outright foolishness, that's on a par with trying to justify Rudd's horrific waste of money on overpriced school buildings and home insulation schemes, on the basis of how much taxes they'll generate for the government.
You're not trying to justify Rudd and Gillard splashing out three or four times the normal price for school buildings? Pleased to hear it. However, your comment about how much tax this scheme will generate for the government gave me the very clear impression that you were in fact trying to justify Rudd's appalling waste of our money.
I presume we're agreed then - government spending on these various schemes will certainly generate revenue for the government, but nothing justifies the incompetent and financially wasteful manner in which these schemes have been implemented.