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And who pays for this 'national interest'? because like it or not SOMEONE HAS TO. and that is the point. the people who will actually have to pay for it - the taxpayer - just want to know how it is going to work and how it going to be paid for. the NBN might be a national interest project but it still has to be paid for.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 9:33am:

The private sector is full of people who got their by 'networking'!!!

Oh, don't the metrosexuals like this: I AM SO SORRY, PLEASE FORGIVE ME!

 

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 9:41am:

Oh NOes: Margaret Thatcher quotes!

....hey, aren't the banks too big to fail or something?!!?

I remember I used to get money in my hand after work!

     

Coalition Resigns Itself to the Inevitable
November 29, 2010 - 3:14PM

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hailed as historic the passage of legislation to structurally separate Telstra.

Parliament's lower house approved Senate amendments to the legislation in a vote at 2.15pm (AEDT) on Monday.

The vote was passed on the voices without the coalition calling for a division.

"Today in the parliament the government has delivered an historic win for Australian families and businesses," she told reporters in Canberra, flanked by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and leader of government business Anthony Albanese.

It also was an historic micro-economic reform through the structural separation of Telstra, she said.

The $36 billion national broadband network (NBN), a key Labor election promise, can proceed with Telstra's participation.

"For almost 30 years now this nation has tried to reform Telstra ... so that the wholesale business and the retail business were not fused together creating an anti-competitive monopoly," Ms Gillard said.

"We have achieved that structural separation."

Ms Gillard said approval of the Telstra legislation was a "big win".

"But the government will not be resting on its laurels in delivering this win for Australian families and Australian business," Ms Gillard said.

"I want to make it clear that 2011 will be a year of delivery."

Senator Conroy accused the opposition of being wreckers by their failure to back the legislation.

"When it came to the choice between supporting significant, what has been often described as the holy grail of micro-economic reform in the telecommunications sector, the opposition went missing," he said.

The NBN now had an enormous task ahead, Senator Conroy said.

"It has an enormous task to begin the rollout around Australia at its peak," he said.

"There'll be 31 different build spots around Australia, there will be an enormous engineering task."


http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/pm-hails-nbn-passage-as-histori...

buzzanddidj wrote on Nov 29^th, 2010 at 2:59pm:


so to read behing the polly-speak, they have gotten rid of a monopoly (telstra) by building a new monopoly with a greater reach (NBN). It might have been many things, but getting rid of a monopoly was not one of them. Remember that it is only in the last 2 weeks that Conroy has even deigned to PERMIT competition with the NBN altho they are building severe barriers to competition. We could end up witht he most expensive internet on the planet because there wil be NO competition to the NBN.

buzzanddidj wrote on Dec 6^th, 2010 at 3:55pm:



Does that include the power genius?  That'll improve your NBA........idiot!

The "power" of intelligence which obviously you haven't got genius!