Huh?
Rupes is pretty good with numbers.
If the original publicly available NBN plan was so grossly under-costed (it was) - why the need to lobby to ‘dumb it down’? The facts are a nowhere near complete network could’ve been built under the original costing and rollout plan.
I’m not blaming Labor - it was an ambitious project - just poorly executed. Abbott was equally wrong when he said no-one would ever need more than 12mb/s.
It’s just not as simple as you’re trying to make it out to be. The NBN plan did not change purely because of Murdoch and the Coalition and that’s indisputable.
The problem here mate is you cannot foresee how soon that new technology will be available.
An example being climate change, there are some pinning their hope on new technology arising and taking away this problem that scientists have been warning us about for the last 20 years but there's no guarantees of that.
The proposed NBN rolled out under labors plan was an ambitious infrastructure project for all of Australia, and now coupled with 5G technology (that wasn't known of back then) it would have laid some great groundwork for our future.
Given that, at the time, no one knew of 5G nor when that kind of technology would be available, what other reasons were there for the Libs to reject the idea? (Youre right in saying that this will be an ongoing battle given the advances of technology)
They're more than happy to invest in new coal fired power plants don't forget.
The push from Murdoch definitely played its part when this was initially being argued in parliament.