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Best uses for $43B

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GrahamY,
you of all people should know that the biggest beneficiaries of this move will be business'. Does your post come with a "this is a party political announcement"? It's straight out of the the Liberals leaders(?) mouth....what's his name?

Just because it comes from the Labor party doesn't mean it's bad. Opposition for opposition sake is putting the interest of the party before the country. Where is their alternative? oh yes amongst those high fliers with golden parachutes

As pointed out the business/private people are intended to put up 49% initially. The idea of a government infrastructure bond is safer than forcing the people and the retired to go and risk their money in the market. Which is a Liberal 'core' issue. The security bit was a non core issue wasn't it.
Thanks market place for nothing.
Posted by eAnt, Saturday, 11 April 2009 5:22:24 PM
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I wonder if between the lot of us we could end up writing an article about this.

That's a good idea Democritus. I've also been reading that Telstra intends to upgrade their existing line to 100 mbps, so Rudd better get in quickly or he'll end up spending $43 Billion for no commercial benefit whatsoever. And apparently the 3G network is going to 42mbps.

Perhaps the $43B is really just an exercise in scaring the telcos into supplying the speed themselves? Although how would the government explain it away if they didn't proceed?
Posted by GrahamY, Saturday, 11 April 2009 5:46:02 PM
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A letter published in The Australian recently made the good point that the debate is being cast as though the only benefit of fast broadband will be to improve people's Facebooking and porn surfing.

In reality, it's a step toward making computer terminals a workplace, video-telephone, home entertainment system, household management tool, and thousands of other applications that haven't been developed yet. I don't think we should underestimate the utility of fast digital communication.

For my part, however, I'd rather the money was spent on an effective water management plan. When the oil starts running out, that will be a major problem to tackle.
Posted by Sancho, Saturday, 11 April 2009 6:26:04 PM
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Apparently in England they use the sewer systems to run the cabling through thus cutting costs on excavation.Could we call this shitsu cabling?

When Kevin sends us all broke we won't have to use any cabling.In the gaols they simply remove the water from the bowl and shout at each other down the toilets.

Could someone please send a message to Kevin via our sewerage system?
Posted by Arjay, Saturday, 11 April 2009 6:27:48 PM
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Tits on a bull comes to mind.

This is as well designed as the stimulus package building such critical infrastructure as town hall buildings, & school assembly buildings. Just the sort of stuff we need to boost productivity.

I suppose all those at home on their paid maternity leave will be able to get their entertainment more easily.

Hasbeen
Posted by Hasbeen, Sunday, 12 April 2009 2:18:47 PM
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An absolute waste of money indeed Arjay.

The best use of a sum in the order of 43billion$ would be to facilitate a quick conversion from a continuous-growth-based economic system to a steady-state economic paradigm, and assist people who may become disadvantaged by it during the transition.

Weaning ourselves off of the future-destroying continuous-expansion-with-no-end-until-it-all-crashes-in-huge-heap economic system is the single most important thing for this country and the quality of life and prospects of a healthy future for all its citizens.

Achieving a balance between the demands exerted by the population on our resource base and environment and the ability for the resource base to provide the necessary resources for a high quality of life in an ongoing manner, and for the environment to remain healthy and not suffer continuous decline, is the bottom line in devising the right strategy for our future.

We need sustainability Mr Rudd, NOT stupid expenditure that props up the continuous-growth grossly unsustainable system that is leading us to ruin.

Quite frankly, Rudd is about as bad as the leaders of the Easter Island civilisation, who apparently put just about all their resources into appeasing their gods when things became critical, rather than developing strategies to manage their highly degraded resource base for their own survival.
Posted by Ludwig, Sunday, 12 April 2009 4:57:31 PM
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