This post brought to you by the letters N, B, and N
When I found out that Schloss Merkel was located in the NBN trial site in Brunswick, Victoria, it wasn’t a hard decision to sign up.
Be kind, rewind, rollback, dissemble….
In the years immediately after the 1998 Federal Election, at which John Howard’s Coalition successfully won a mandate for introducing the GST, Federal Labor got stuck in a real policy communication rut. Sure, there was quite a bit of popular [...]
Quick link: Grog on Gillard and the NBN deals
Grog notes the deal done with Nick Xenophon and Steve Fielding to pass a key piece of legislation enabling the NBN: What it also shows (again) is that Julia is a master negotiator. Doing what Rudd was pretty loathe to [...]
An alternative telco plan
Peter Martin reports on the Coalition’s proposed amendments to the NBN legislation currently before the parliament. It’s a fairly transparent attempt to kill the financial viability of the NBN by effectively forcing the copper network to keep operating. The amendments [...]
“Can do” Campbell goes super-fast broadband
As flagged by Wozza, Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman has announced that Brisbane will have super-fast broadband within four years. No unsightly lines hanging from telegraph poles, no digging up streets, company i3 Asia-Pacific plans to put a fibre connection [...]
Demolition Man
(Insert cartoon of Malcolm Turnbull, lit match in hand, sitting on a giant stack of dynamite) It’s the Shadow Cabinet appointment that’s drawn the most discussion thus far, so here’s a thread for it. IMHO, Abbott has just handed Turnbull [...]
Broadband: our future in a ditch
The recent Background Briefing program on broadband started with this image: Di Martin: But as Phil Dobbie discovered for himself the other day, the poor old copper wires, laid more than a century ago, are on their last legs. Phil [...]
Quick links: Broadband policy posts
There are two very useful posts on the Coalition’s broadband policy [earlier LP discussion here] published today worth highlighting: Tama Leaver on industry reaction and “the folly and farce” of the Coalition’s stance, and Stilgherrian in Crikey on the policy [...]
Broadband policy
Today the Coalition has announced its broadband policy. So far I can’t find anything on the Liberal Party’s ‘Real action’ site. I heard on NewsRadio that Conroy and Tony Smith are going to debate the issue at the National press [...]
Marginal seat polling and the Rudd government's position
Paul Norton observed here at LP yesterday that we’re in uncharted psephological waters, with both major parties on low primaries and both leaders relatively unpopular. A host of questions have therefore arisen: about the likely flow of preferences from The [...]
The Telstra-NBNco deal
Trying to get one’s head around the detail of the deal between Telstra and the National Broadband Network company – the vehicle set up by the government to build the NBN – has been a mind-bending exercise. Certainly, it’s virtually [...]
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