It was the liberal party that stuffed up and had the confusing stance the NBN with stopping rollouts of fibre and saying that copper was a better technology - they wasted a lot of money on this and it's now having to all be ripped out.
We'd have had FTTP if Labor hadn't stuffed up structural separation before the NBN debacle took off. If they'd not blocked splitting telstra wholesale from retail, we'd have had a single natonal agency running pits, poles, wires and fibre before it became electoral fodder.
https://www.afr.com/companies/telecommunications/row-intensi...
According to this article, the LNP coalition were the cause of the subsequent abandonment of FTTP:
https://delimiter.com.au/2013/09/07/fttp-dream-coalition-vic...
As it was, telstra was paid $11b for the transfer of its pits and some customer access network exchange infrastructure to the NBN and had paused maintenance so much, significant amounts of asset had fallen into disrepair.