[rezyn8]

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.

Update: 28,238 supporters - 21,761 NEEDED

Please take a minute to sign the petition here, and tell your friends to do the same.

[DUCKVILLELOL]

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.

[Seffy]

It's not bad to have a go at seeing if they'd actually listen but I doubt they would.

[asdfSchnitzel]

I would think if it had enough of a following they might consider it, but there is literally no reason why we shouldn't try

#savingseasports

[fray`Alpha]

Originally Posted by ToRSchnitzel

I would think if it had enough of a following they might consider it, but there is literally no reason why we shouldn't try

#savingseasports

This. It may not work. But its very quick simple and easy to do so no reason not to.

[|Erasmus|]

More likely is any changes to it will be blocked by the Labor/Greens controlled senate if they think enough people care strongly about it, but w/e.

[LordByrnsy]

Signed and passed on
I'm glad someone did this =)

[DUCKVILLELOL]

Done and done.

[chlippry]

signed and shared!

[SLCN.CautioN]

done signed done lets do this.

[mGGDrGooSe]

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).

[DUCKVILLELOL]

Also check out http://iwantthenbn.com/ to keep up to date on the petition

[VB_Inter]

signed, Hope this can change something but not holding my breath.

[eCKo'Apoc]

signed it

[sR.Kumo]

signed (:


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[Ice714]

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?

Just doesn't make sense to me

[sR.Kumo]

http://www.weneedthenbn.com/2013/09/the-next-60-days/
you guys should like all read this and reply and whatnot.

[mGGDrGooSe]

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.

[Ice714]

From what I understand no one is able to do anything until July next year.

Not sure if construction will continue from now till then and how it's all going to work, it's a huge mess and they're all a bunch of idiots tbh.

Company's surely signed contracts to complete work and be paid for projects up until a certain point... It's going to get messy imo.

[Baldie]

Done. If nothing comes of it not any loss might as well jump on board in case!