Infrastructure always has been the priority of labor. Without it you have nothing. Spending that sort of money, you would want some guarantee that no one is going to pick the eyes out of it.
The airways are crowded enough, TV, Radio, all on broadband, at the speed of light.
This will set AU up for the next 100 years. An equalizer for all people of AU.

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Yes the great infrastructure projects of Labor, The pink Batts, the super expensive school halls of the BER, the litany of failure and incompetence goes on.

Did the BER do what it was designed to do. The whole world says it done exactly that. You are scraping the bottom of the bucket, to find something that is not there.

The BER was supposed to save jobs in the construction industry, and build school infrastructure.

It spent so much much money that it pushed up the cost of labor in a recession, carried on way past when it was required, and built infrastructure at twice the going price, that was often not the priority needs of the schools.

The reality is that the jobs could have been saved for less than half what was spent, and the schools could have been far better served meeting their needs rather than the rubber stamp constructions they got.

The NBN is the same, it is costing 3 to 4 times what is required to raise the broad band speeds to worlds best standards.

An argument that has passed it's useby date. Schools were happy to get anything they can.
Infrastructure has to be upfront, not lagging behind.
Leave it to the experts, and try not to worry.

There were plenty of experts that thought it was a waste of money. For example the audit that showed that government built school halls cost twice as much as those similar halls built by the private schools.

Labor wants everyone to forget its incompetence, but the voters are not idiots, which is why the coalition is still held in far higher regards with respect to economic management.