The polls have closed. The Liberals will now take the reigns for the next 3 years in Australia. Regardless of your political persuasion, we need our voices heard in regards to what we want from the NBN and how it should be implemented so we are not stuck with copper wires for another 15-20 years.
I am not sure of the success of these petitions, but there is no harm in trying to get the new government to change their policy on the NBN by implementing FTTH (fiber to the home) instead of FTTN (fiber to the node).
Almost 21,000 have signed already; another 10,000 are required to push this through to Malcolm Turnbull.
I've always been wary of online petitions; like to be fair democracy doesn't end at the polling booth (it's not meant to) but lets say this gets a decent amount of sigs, would things actually change? It's not like we've got that awesome "Senator Online" party covering the senate.
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Yes I signed it. But remember, this was one of their major policies that they ran their entire campaign on in two ways. 1) the FTTH is not needed/ is overkill and 2) FTTH is just another example of Labor waste. Therefore, even if a new tech came out making FTTH actually cheaper than FTTN, I would be very surprised if they could survive the political storm of backflipping so soon after the election.
I would say their is more chance of gay marriage. Which i can concievably see enough pressure occuring such that Tony Puppet gets forced into a conscience vote on (like maybe 20% chance).
I signed it a few days ago, I don't understand how they're going to work this...
People already have the NBN fully installed and operational, are they going to just tell the rest of us to pay up if we want it connected? Are they going to charge a fee to the people who already have it?
Ice, as I understand (and I'm waiting to be corrected now) the Libs are basically doing the same thing that Rudd was going to do, just stopping soon. Hence fibre to the node, but keeping the copper between node and house, as well as other places just not getting fibre at all, but some POS wireless thing instead.
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