All the focus has been on what Labor stands for. Yesterday it looked a lot like it was the Coalition that was adrift and lacking policy.
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NBN business case: curiouser and curiouser
If the government secures passage of its bill to separate Telstra, it will have achieved an historic telecommunications reform. Typically, everyone’s talking about something else.
NBN Co business case — truly a curiously inadequate document
“It is a curiously inadequate document,” wrote Malcolm Turnbull of the NBN Co Business Case Summary. He’s right. A business case that doesn’t, y’know, present a case for the business, supported by proper numbers? WTF?
Political snippets: Boredom Baillieu’s only hope
The only thing Ted Baillieu can hope for is that feelings of boredom cause voters to do something strange on Saturday.
The Australian in NBN-induced meltdown
The Australian is in National Broadband Network induced meltdown today, with the gang mercilessly hacking into Gillard and Conroy’s NBN plan. Their attacks reek of partisanship and they fail time and time again to come up with compelling arguments, writes Dave Gaukroger.
Jericho: Gillard is playing funny buggers with NBN
One of the big questions surrounding the government’s release of its NBN business plan was why it took so long for them to do it. It’s hard not to think that Gillard was playing shifty politics, writes Greg Jericho.
Xenophon extracts NBN plan from govt
Crikey Media Wrap: Despite the government previously insisting that its NBN business plan could not be released, Julia Gillard and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy finally coughed it up yesterday after pressure from independent senator Nick Xenophon.
Clash of the senatorial egos spells trouble for Telstra’s shareholders
The spat over the NBN business plan will harm Telstra shareholders more than anyone else.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Could Labor divide over gay marriage?
Crikey readers have their say.
The Coalition’s hypocritical line on transparency
Coalition demands that the government release the NBN business plan are pretty funny coming from the mob who wouldn’t even release documents when their own senators demanded it.
Crikey Says: The Coalition’s NBN credibility problem
There has been considerable puffing and posturing from the Coalition in recent days over the National Broadband Network, and it continues…
Andrew Bolt, the NBN and the supposed magic of wireless
In his latest sledging of the National Broadband Network, Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt has had another go at the “wireless will do everything ” argument. Pity it is ill informed and illogical, writes Dave Gaukroger.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The banks’”because they can” pricing
Crikey readers have their say.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: NBN is the new telegraph pole (or two-lane Sydney Harbour Bridge)
Crikey readers have their say.
Dump your copper network, says Japan IT mogul — the story you weren’t told
The Australian gleefully reported a Japanese billionaire’s criticism of the NBN — but didn’t mention that his real target was exactly what the newspaper itself is pushing.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The NBN is a waste ot time
Crikey readers have their say.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The National Broadband Network debate
Crikey readers have their say.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Why the media misunderstands broadband
Crikey readers have their say.
How Coalition broadband plan stacks up
Just six weeks since Malcolm Turnbull became opposition communications spokesperson, he’s already sharpened up the Coalition’s broadband policy and provided politically-saleable points of difference from Labor’s national broadband network.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Bravo John Howard, bravo
Crikey readers have their say.
If the Liberals oppose the NBN, they have to back splitting Telstra
If the Liberals are serious about an alternative approach to NBN, they have to start with the vertical separation of Telstra, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: “Too big to bail” should be our regulatory motto
Crikey readers have their say.
Conroy comes knocking
Watch out - Conroy’s about! He’ll make you use the NBN and he’ll charge you thousands for the privilege. At least, that’s what some in the media want you to think.
Graeme Samuel’s NBN slug
As if Telstra didn’t have enough to deal with, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has raised the prospect it will do an about-face on its attitude to Telstra’s wholesale ADSL access regime.
Is Brisbane’s sewer broadband a crock of …?
Broadband through the sewers? Obvious jokes aside, does Brisbane’s plan to roll out its own fibre rather than wait for the National Broadband Network prove Australia’s need for speed?
