Broadband election debate: watch it on YouTube

Raindog (New user):

As always Conroy proves himself to be a tool. And most definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Tin (User):

Anyone like me who missed it - the full hour and 4 minutes of it is on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHbeONYdUc

Tin (User):

And as I kind of expected, Conroy made a tit of himself again by butting in and generally being unprofessional and rude.

apt.pupil (New user):

well this was an interesting way to chew an hour of my life.

Seeing Conroy's lack of professionalism and airy promises- Tony Smith's bumbling about with clearly no idea how he is going to make our broadband faster(in other words: he cant based on his method)

and seeing Scott Ludlam do what greens do bst

TV Bis (New user):

Well I started to watch and stopped 1 min into it - as boring as bat poo I have to say.
I am not sure if the Government, if re-elected will be able to pull this of within budget. I do hope so because anything would be better than what we have now.
I do not like the Liberals alternative because I cannot see why it was not suggested much much earlier.
We have to do something about our network and each time something is promised and then cancelled it puts Australia back another 10 years or more.
I know it is a lot of money to spend but I am a tax payer and I am willing to contribute to something, anything to get us closer to what the rest of the world is enjoying right now.

Raindog (New user):

Quoting TV Bis:
Well I started to watch and stopped 1 min into it - as boring as bat poo I have to say.

This is electoral material, what were you expecting Avatar with smell-o-vision?


Quoting TV Bis:
I am not sure if the Government, if re-elected will be able to pull this of within budget.

The persistent refusal to produce any real cost benefit analysis would support you suggestion.


Quoting TV Bis:
I do hope so because anything would be better than what we have now.

True, with the proviso that anything better needs to actually be deliverable.


Quoting TV Bis:
I do not like the Liberals alternative because I cannot see why it was not suggested much much earlier.

Why didn't it Keating forward it in 1997? It serves little purpose to worry about the past and the what-ifs. better to concentrate on 2010 to 2013.

You do realise the Tony Abbot was the only honest politician in stating he had no clue. Some of the nonsense I'm heard from politicians that believe they have a clue is worrying.


Quoting TV Bis:
I know it is a lot of money to spend but I am a tax payer and I am willing to contribute to something, anything to get us closer to what the rest of the world is enjoying right now.

as long as we are having a realistic comparison. The bit the fanfare for NBN misses is WHEN, and FOR HOW MUCH.

sure fibre everywhere would be great, but back in reality land what when, when, how and for how much will a NBN equate to?

A few suburbs in Tassie with the providers subsidised is no reflection of what is realistic.

Halcon (User):

The NBN is used as an election promise with empty results.
Julia Gillard is so desperate to grab the power at all costs without any realistic approach.
Recently she said people in remote areas would have to use the Internet to contact the GP and have a consultation via webcam, what this promises lack of substance is that in a real world the doctor must do an examination to the patient, then it can proceed to give the appropriate medicine and related treatment.