Imagine if Labor won.
* A robust FTTP that would be paid back nicely, and
* A carbon tax that would now be an "emissions trading scheme" doing it's part to reduce carbon emissions.
* A robust FTTP that would be paid back nicely, and
* A carbon tax that would now be an "emissions trading scheme" doing it's part to reduce carbon emissions.
Truly Kevin Rudd can be credited with remarkable vision for proposing the NBN in the form that he did and it is a great pity it did not come to conclusion.
Labor/Rudd/Gillard/all the shadowy Labor background figures gets the blame for the "true" NBN not happening because they just could help themselves fighting and grasping at the crown.
I mean, ultimately I voted for the Pirate Party, but you can't blame people for not having faith that Labor would achieve in their third term something they'd fail to achieve in the previous two. Keeping someone in power despite not fulfilling their promises is how you get Howard.
It's also worth noting that Labor was slow rolling out the NBN. They did have 6 years in power, and didn't get NBN in the hands of many people at all.
Yes it was a big project, but it's hard to argue that more speed was impossible.
The biggest problem was not going fibre to the pit. It would have saved one of the most expensive parts of the operation - the lead in to the house.