That sounds like American politics...
One year hand out laptops & tablets & all sorts of delightfull toys, then the next year kill all the funding to support any of it.
I volunteered at my son's 6th Grade school as their "Computer Guy" and had to spend *my own* money to get their "Computer Lab" (a bunch of tables with computers on them, huddling in their Library) up to speed. Packard Bell's with 1st generation Pentiums, 4Megs of RAM, 1Gb HD's, interconnected via 10-Base-T. Out of all the machines in the lab, *three* of them worked, but would overheat so fast it made them pointless to turn on. Disassemble them all, clean out, max out the Ram in each, install Ethernet LAN instead, and reimage with Win XP instead of 95a. Finally get all the systems up & running, locked down so they can access only the specific sites approved by the Principle, and spend the rest of my time "putting out fires" so to speak.
The next year my son moved to a new school, and I landed a full time job too far away to permit me to come back on my lunch hour to remain as their Computer Guy. The District had the money to buy the school all those systems with a promise to support them in the future, but then the funding vanished & so did the promised support. If it weren't for me volunteering to do it for free, I'm certain those machines would still be gathering dust & the occasional fingerprints, because the school didn't have the budget to afford such luxuries as a Computer Support Tech of their own.
Fast forward to last year. I heard that the Computer Guy whom volunteered after me managed to get Intel to cough up all new machines for the school, replacing the ones in the Lab as well as adding ones to each & every classroom. Great! Except he, too, was a volunteer & they couldn't afford to pay to retain him, so the end of the school year was the end of their free support. Those machines have essentially gone the way of those original Packard Bell's I'd supported all those years ago. No money to pay for support means that when they crash, that's it. Nobody at the school is Tech Savvy enough to fix them, they can't afford to get them fixed, and the District parrots "There's no money in the budget" line every time...
All while the School District SuperAttendant takes District-paid-for "fact finding tours" to tropical locations to ascertain how to better outfit the schools under their control. *Spits in disgust*
So NSW handing out all that shiny kit back in '07, then killing off the funding to support it a decade later? Sounds like American PolitiShit to me. =-(