Yes We Canberra! | The Coalition's Broadband Policy | Wednesdays, 9.45pm ABC1

The Chaser's YES WE CANBERRA! has a message for the Coalition's proposed National Broadband Network -- for the future of the country don't miss it -- it's faster than dial-up! YES WE CANBERRA! -- 9.45pmWednesdays ABC1 -- repeated on ABC2 at 9.15pm on Thursdays. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/yeswecanberra/

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[Buckeh]

Lawl, if Tony Abbott was around a hundred years ago he probably would've said that wiring up houses with electricity was a bad idea.

Shame so many people are stupid enough to vote for a party lead by someone like that :(

[togdamo]

@lounzac Yes, this country needs infrastructure and Labor has done more in less then 3 years then The Coalition did in 11 years. Unless you think invading countries, killing innocents, moving our manufacturing overseas and destroying the environment is what this country needs. I'm an old Liberal voter, NEVER again.

[bigswano]

@togdamo They are the most populist party in Australia. They will sell their souls if they think there's a vote in it. Immigration wouldn't be the big political hot potato it is, if Howard and co hadn't used asylum seekers as currency to win the election.

[tothemax01]

@bigdude101ohyeah The private sector isn't supplying the utilities for a reason. The government does not make the impractical happen by magic - it just diverts money from everything else. Net loss. And public utilities don't run at a profit because (and Ive worked there), they prefer office politics to actually getting stuff done. They are wasteful.

And yes, the way to succeed in the private market is to provide bad quality services at a high price. Logic fail.

[bigdude101ohyeah]

The NBN is just cleaning up after the mess that the Keating and Howard governments made with Telecom/Telstra.

[bigdude101ohyeah]

@Eddy9412 I might be a cunt, but I'm not a fucking cunt.

[bigdude101ohyeah]

@Doctor699 If Abbott was chosen by the independents, would you think the same way?

I thought not.

[bigdude101ohyeah]

@tothemax01 Maybe if the private sector would get up and supply the utilities. Too bad that most necessary utilities don't run at a profit.

If power companies worked like post-privatised Telstra when electricity was getting wired up, people in regional areas, and in newer metropolitan developments would just be given a poor quality generator, and would be charged more than someone on the grid.

[mubd1234]

I love the rotary phone in the background.

[tothemax01]

Why is it always the governments role to supply utilities? Pretty easy for the Left, isn't it? Simply say "The government will improve industry X", and then when people say "It will cost more than private industry doing it, construction will be slow, and it will divert resources from elsewhere", you simply reply "AH HA! You want industry X to be crap! You are a dinosaur!".

What a crock of shit.

[AcidScent]

faster than dial up eh?

[bigswano]

good ol netscape navigator