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Another Coalition Member Caught Lying Over NBN

More lies and misinformation from the Coalition over the National Broadband Network (NBN). They just can’t help themselves, can they? Just caught this tweet from Sussan Ley, the Coalition Member for Farrer in Southern New South Wales: Of course, this is just patently wrong, and I followed up here and here. The Coalition’s alternative NBN […]

More Coalition Goalpost Shifting

Certain members of our alternative government have certainly been a bit shifty with numbers related to their portfolios in the last 24 hours. On the National Broadband Network (NBN) front, where it has been claimed that if the Coalition comes to power at the election, and it’s alternative NBN is implemented, that people may be […]

Hypocritical Turnbull Strikes Again Over Quigley

NBN Co, the company building Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN), this morning announced that founding CEO Mike Quigley, would be retiring from that position, after initially coming out of retirement in 2009 to head up the company. NBN Co Chief Executive Announces Retirement “NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley today announced that he will retire from […]

Zumbo NBN Opinion Piece Has Fatal Flaw

Everyone – (and particularly media outlets) – has an opinion on the NBN. In a free democracy, having an opinion and being allowed to express it is a fundamental premise. A opinion piece on the NBN by Frank Zumbo – (an associate professor at the school of business law and taxation at the University of […]

Albanese Shafts The Iron Wires

Putting all seriousness over the NBN debate (mostly) aside for the moment, Anthony Albanese – (the current Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) – dragged up a great response to an NBN ‘Dorothy Dixer’ question in the House of Representatives yesterday: Jokes aside, the speech was actually a fair point. For the record, here is the […]

The Telstra Copper Ship Of Theseus

There were some interesting comments yesterday from Telstra CEO David Thodey, about his company’s opinion as to the state of the current copper Customer Access Network (CAN), the lines most of us use for telephone calls and internet access. The condition of the network has been at the forefront of the alternative National Broadband Network […]

This NBN Or That NBN?

Generally speaking, apart from the recent asbestos incidents, things have been relatively quiet on the National Broadband Network (NBN) front of late. There have been some regulatory issues going on, but largely there hasn’t been much noise. With the election approaching, broadband will go in one of two directions in Australia, depending on the result. […]

Why Are We So Shocked About PRISM?

Ever since The Guardian started revealing details of secret internet surveillance against private citizens undertaken by US government agencies – (such as the NSA) – which ultimately lead to the whistleblower Edward Snowden outing himself as their source, there has been international outcry as to the nature of these activities. As there should be. Many […]

Asbestos: Lets Just Fix It

Shall we be honest here for a moment? There’s been a lot of heat in the last week over the issue of asbestos lining in thousands of telecommunications pits around Australia, being remediated as part of the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout. Certainly, it would seem that a number of Telstra sub-contractors – (and probably […]

Dereel NBN Tower Finally Gets Approval

NBN Co has finally won the fight to erect a wireless tower for their network rollout in the tiny Victorian town of Dereel: Dereel NBN Wireless Tower Gets Green Light “A National Broadband Network wireless tower has been cleared for construction in Dereel, after the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) quashed residents’ objections.” “The […]