A clever website purporting to show the difference between the speed of Labor’s NBN and the Coalition’s broadband plan has gone viral — but is it a fair and accurate representation? We fact-check How Fast is the NBN.
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COALITION POLICY
Let’s acknowledge Abbott’s parental leave plan is better
Forget the misplaced rhetoric, Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme is more generous and sends the right message about women in work. This “hardline feminist” is happy to say so.
READ MOREKoukoulas: budgetary Swan song less interesting than Abbott’s reply
It’s not Wayne Swan you should listen to next week, but the budget reply speech from Opposition Leader Tony Abbott. Economist and former Labor adviser Stephen Koukoulas says the PM-in-waiting has to deliver some hard numbers.
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Broadband battle: hard numbers, ideology and gut feel
Yes, Malcolm Turnbull knows Labor’s NBN policy of fibre to the premises is technically superior than the Coalition’s plan. But he argues this is not the only factor.
READ MOREBroadband battlelines drawn: Turnbull’s plan for fast internet
There weren’t many surprises in the Coalition’s plan for the national broadband rollout, released today. But now the battle lines are drawn: Labor’s NBN verses Malcolm Turnbull’s cut-price, not-quite-as-fast model. And Turnbull nailed the policy announcement today.
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The Power Index: carbon cutters, Coalition influencers at #9
Who will influence Tony Abbott on climate policy if he claims the Lodge? The Coalition vows to ditch the carbon tax but its Direct Action alternative needs resourcing. The Power Index examines the field and finds ex-minister Robert Hill could be in the box seat.
READ MORERallying around Rooty Hill
Crikey readers vent their spleen on the issues of the day.
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Turnbull and the barking mad NBN debate: numbers needed
Malcolm Turnbull has offered a defence of the Coalition’s broadband internet strategy, but claims he needs more numbers from NBN Co. We’d settle for rough estimates ahead of the election.
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Abbott’s adviser hates wind farms, doubts climate change
Tony Abbott’s latest Coalition policy statement remains short on climate policy detail. More worrying is his selection of a noted anti-wind farm advocate and climate change sceptic as lead business adviser.
READ MOREWill Abbott’s axe really kill carbon trading in Australia?
Tony Abbott is likely to rescind the current cap-and-trade legislation if he wins the next election, but it’s easy to see the potential for a new carbon pricing scheme to develop out of the stump his axe created.
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Coalition’s policies? We’ve got ‘em — well, sort of
Crikey has obtained the Coalition’s internal policy bible for backbenchers. And we want readers to start going through it.
READ MOREAbolishing Medicare Locals is bad health and economic policy
New primary health care organisations known as Medicare Locals aren’t perfect. But the opposition’s plan to abolish them makes no sense on health or economic grounds, writes health academic Jon Wardle.
READ MOREReality check: The hard sell is still to come
The Crikey Reality Check on what people actually read on news web sites has been showing a decline in interest for weeks now and nothing changed this morning. Coverage of the Coalition policy launch barely rated in the lists of the top five most read stories, writes Richard Farmer.
READ MORERuddisms: A very Crikey glossary
It might be John Howard who’s stuck in the 1950s on policy, but it’s Rudd who sometimes speaks like he’s walked straight off the set of Happy Days. Crikey has the glossary, writes Jane Nethercote.
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