Australia to build $43b FTTH broadband network

To put that in perspective, that's $2,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. That's a huge amount. To put it into perspective, the same expenditure in the USA would be roughly $600b.

Putting aside the fact that this is desperately needed in AU's miserable internet market - this is exactly what a government should be doing at a time like this. Spending huge amounts on wisely chosen infrastructure projects is just the ticket to pull a country out of recession, IMO.