{"id":6465,"date":"2012-09-24T10:28:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=6465"},"modified":"2012-09-24T10:28:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:28:15","slug":"turnbull-nbn-costing-backflip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/09\/turnbull-nbn-costing-backflip\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnbull NBN Costing Backflip?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmturnbull.com.au\/\">Malcolm Turnbull<\/a> said that he had <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afr.com\/p\/technology\/turnbull_cut_price_broadband_plan_cyno2UoMeEYk6G1E5KrCDM\">a fully costed policy document ready to go<\/a> with respect to his alternative plan for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbnco.com.au\/\">National Broadband Network<\/a> (NBN).<\/p>\n<p>Yet today, he is taking a different tack:<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/technology\/malcolm-turnbull-promises-cheaper-broadband-sooner-but-no-costings\/story-fn7celvh-1226479972456\">Malcolm Turnbull Promises Cheaper Broadband, Sooner, But No Costings<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr Turnbull said because the coalition did not have access to the details of the NBN rollout, it was difficult to provide a fully-costed alternative.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A month ago he had a fully costed plan, now it&#8217;s difficult to even make a fully costed plan?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Was he wrong then?  Is he wrong now?<\/p>\n<p>Backflip.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Turnbull appeared on ABC&#8217;s 730 last night, and continued to espouse the &#8220;we can&#8217;t cost this until after the election&#8221;, despite having a &#8220;full costed plan&#8221; a month ago:<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zJHfb6CTQs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, Malcolm Turnbull said that he had a fully costed policy document ready to go with respect to his alternative plan for the National Broadband Network (NBN). Yet today, he is taking a different tack: Malcolm Turnbull Promises Cheaper Broadband, Sooner, But No Costings &#8220;Mr Turnbull said because the coalition did not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,368,447],"class_list":["post-6465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-auspol","tag-nbn","tag-releaseyourpolicy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}