579, for small town businesses to thrive, they require customers. Just how will the NBN, remembering it is not cost effective in small towns, bring such customers, especially given its a voluntary service.

As for being 30th on the fast BB list, we also have a very large country, with a very small population. Its the same reason we don't have high speed rail, its all about the numbers and value for money.

Is this the worse ad of the whole election campaign?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fse0sm05V-8

No self respecting tradie would sound as phony as this pretender, sounds more like a reject for a 10 pound Pom!

Now for some fair dinkum workers with a real message for Australia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOaNy-dk-Q

Good to see a a decent organisation like the CFMEU spending a quid to get the real message out there. Keep up the good work.

Hey everyone, come & look. Paul just cracked a funny. Yes that's right Paul.

He actually mentioned The CFMEU, & I quote, "fair dinkum workers" in the same post.

Now I've heard everything.

Hassy, unfortunately those of your persuasion are so easily duped, and we have a number of such persons on this very forum, they should wake up immediately because as an old Pope once said "You should stop it! otherwise you'll go blind!", you are being blinded by Liberal propaganda, We can even apply that old saying to the likes of you, "come in sucker!" as you fall for the conservatives despicable fraud feast that this whole election is. I would have thought a gentleman of your senior years would be able to spot a phony when he sees one, namely Mr M Turnbull, obviously not! It would seem Mr A Macrae (see ad credits authorised by A Nut, and spoken by A Phoney Liberal Party Canberra), Macrae is probably a used car salesman, sounds like one, who has another overpriced lemon waiting just for you.
On the other hand we have the decent working folk, members of that honest, honorable and respectable union the CFMEU trying their best (at their cost) to tell it, like it is. Just For YOU!

Did you watch the ads?

If you had read my other posts on matters politic Paul, you would have noticed me saying, nothing on earth could get me to vote for a party led by Turnbull.

Just as with his clone, Rudd I recognised him as a phoney the moment he appeared, pushing the case for a republic.

As a chardonnay socialist, without a practical bone in his body, he is actually exactly what you get, & expect to get leading the greens down the garden path, to play with the fairies.

One thought on 570s idea that the NBN will be good for small town business.

I reckon he's got that just about dead wrong. So many people are buying so much from dot com traders, both local & overseas that it is likely to be the end of small retail, both in the country, & the city.

Even old fogies like me are getting in on the act, since I discovered, & felt safe using PayPal for online purchases. I buy more than half the bits for my classic pommy sports car direct from the UK, rather than from Ozzie specialists, it's cheaper. I understand that to stock parts, local traders need some margin to cover the investment costs of holding slow moving stock, but then my budget is very finite.

At the same time local hobby shops are missing out on the $3 or $4000 my son & I, well mostly my son, spend on our remote control aircraft, & other toys. Things from saddles through white goods to chainsaws & camping equipment are arriving at the gate via courier or Aust. Post. Our mail contractor, [bush postie] had to buy a large van to do his rounds, as he is now delivering so many parcels. He even carries an electronic gadget so we can sign for our parcels at the gate.

Hell the stuff I buy from Hong Kong is even freight free

The net is taking an increasing amount of business from the retail trader, so much that many will disappear, as the current younger generation become the dominate consumer. For many the NBN is a disaster, well it will be if it ever gets finished.