Tag: Abbott’s Legacy

NBN

Government wants NBN Co to focus on the money

The Government’s new financial plan for the NBN is more about protecting its own investment as opposed to what’s best for the country. Paul Budde reports. Rather conveniently, NBN Co has removed all forward financial projections beyond the next 12 months in its Corporate Plan for 2022, released last week. As I also mentioned when the Government released its financial results a few weeks ago, understanding how the company is really performing remains rather murky. The new corporate plan only adds to that lack of clarity. Of course, it is no secret that the company is struggling with its financials. It has been unable to lift its average revenue per user (ARPU) as it has been projecting for many years. From now on, projections for revenue, earnings, net profit and CapEx will no longer be provided because of its ongoing efforts to secure debt financing.

Source: Government wants NBN Co to focus on the money

NBN

Is the ACCC protecting telco consumers or fattening up NBNCo for sale? – Michael West

ACCC and NBCo

Abbott’s Legacy and embarrasment  being dumped

Is the ACCC helping the Government get the best price for the sale of NBNCo? The competition regulators are doing consumers no favours hindering investment in new telco infrastructure. Who is looking after the interests of telco consumers? asks former NBNCo CTO Gary McLaren.

Source: Is the ACCC protecting telco consumers or fattening up NBNCo for sale? – Michael West

LNP Corruption, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government

Coalition to announce $3.5bn NBN upgrade to roll out fibre ‘deeper and closer to homes’ | Technology | The Guardian
File photo of contractors working on the rollout of the NBN network in 2017
Abbott’s Legacy Australia

“This has meant Australian taxpayers have paid more for a network that does less, and more money is now required to play catch up,” she said in a statement issued on Tuesday. “What on earth was the point of spending $51bn of taxpayers’ dollars on the Liberals’ second-rate copper network to begin with?” In 2018, the outgoing chief executive of NBN Co, Bill Morrow, admitted that the reliance on copper had led to a higher fault rate and slower internet speeds but helped deliver the network faster and more cheaply.

Coalition to announce $3.5bn NBN upgrade to roll out fibre ‘deeper and closer to homes’ | Technology | The Guardian
LNP Government, Uncategorized

‘The NBN is finished’: What’s next?

This was Tony Abbott’s doing Turnbull just handed the poison chalice. The NBN was fucked before it began with Abbott rejecting the ALP’s carbon fibre FTTH scheme for his cheaper MXT option (ODT)

via ‘The NBN is finished’: What’s next?

Informed Comment, LNP Government, Media

Regional Australia secures own digital success despite Coalition’s woeful NBN

Abbott’s legacy NBN. Trailer trashing regional areas but they won’t have a bar of it any longer. (ODT)

Communities are not going to sit and wait for what might or might not happen and regional towns know that they will not be first to get better broadband from NBN Co. Consequently, more and more cities will start developing their own plans in collaboration with their own state governments.

Unfortunately, this will mean overbuilding and wasting money, but with the Morrison Government – purely for party political reasons – stubbornly refusing to talk about fibre optic network, it is clear that many towns in Australia are not going to wait for the Federal Government to take a lead here. The economic and social future of their communities is simply too important to wait for politicians to finally get their act together on these issues.

via Regional Australia secures own digital success despite Coalition’s woeful NBN

NBN, Uncategorized

Telstra and the second rate NBN: The gloves are off

As a consequence, Australia now has one of the highest wholesale broadband prices in the world.

 

via Telstra and the second rate NBN: The gloves are off

NBN, Uncategorized

The Coalition, the NBN Board and Australia’s second rate NBN

Abbott should be supporting his NBN but he’s MIA (ODT)

The Coalition, the NBN Board and Australia’s second rate NBN

Australia's Shame

‘What have I done wrong?’: students falsely reported over terrorism

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Identity Politics of the worst kind. Australians being watched some defitinely are in a campaign of political fear started by the LNP and institutionalised. The student was named  the teacher protected (ODT)

In NSW, staff have been trained to spot students at risk, and provided with guidelines for antisocial and extremist behaviour. In the ACT, teachers must report all suspicious student behaviour to a hotline, where information is relayed to police.

Dr Susie Latham, an adjunct post-doctoral fellow at Curtin University who lives in Melbourne, said it was impossible to run neutral programs in a society with rampant levels of Islamophobia.

She has researched a similar program in the UK which mandates that public sector workers, including teachers, report suspicious behaviour.

“Children have been reported for using common arabic phrases, wearing Islamic clothing, receiving toy guns from their parents and one 4-year-old was reported for drawing a cooker bomb that was later found to be a cucumber.”

*name has been changed to protect the student’s identity

via ‘What have I done wrong?’: students falsely reported over terrorism

Asylum Seekers

This pains me, but it’s time to compromise on Australia’s cruel asylum seeker policy | Robert Manne | Australia news | The Guardian

Protesters with a 'bring them here' sign

Vacating the moral high ground is part of ending the most terrible act perpetrated by the Australian state during my lifetime

via This pains me, but it’s time to compromise on Australia’s cruel asylum seeker policy | Robert Manne | Australia news | The Guardian

Australia's Shame

Australia’s complex refugee debate – Al Jazeera English

Will history see the country as a pioneer of offshore prisons for asylum seekers, or a pariah for having them?

Source: Australia’s complex refugee debate – Al Jazeera English

Climate Change

Tony Abbott’s harmful legacy lives on in climate silence

Together with his footsoldiers in politics and the media, Tony Abbott has succeeded in muddying the public’s understanding of climate change.

Source: Tony Abbott’s harmful legacy lives on in climate silence

Climate Change, Coal

Four Lies In 14 Minutes: Josh Frydenberg And His Andrew Bolt Report Porkies | newmatilda.com

 

Appropriately dubbed the “new Mr Coal” by an excited Andrew Bolt on his weekly Channel Ten slot yesterday, the new Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, Josh Frydenberg averaged a lie every 3.5 minutes as he raked over the Abbott Government’s legacy on climate change and coal.

Source: Four Lies In 14 Minutes: Josh Frydenberg And His Andrew Bolt Report Porkies | newmatilda.com