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Independent Australia: Albanese Government hits the restart button on NBN

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/albanese-government-hits-the-restart-button-on-nbn

“After a decade of inaction by the Coalition, Labor is set to put the NBN back on track….

The overarching policy at that stage was to build an NBN that would benefit Australian society and the economy. The focus was on families, communities and businesses — 94 per cent of the population would be linked to a first-class fibre-to-the-home network. This would provide people across Australia, in cities, towns and most rural areas with the same level of quality broadband….”

Commentary

Will Labor rebuild Australia’s shameful travesty of fraudband aka the National Broadband Network so it actually does what it says on the tin?

Only time will tell.

Pearls and Irritations: NBN write-down confirms its national importance and Coalition failure – Commentary

https://johnmenadue.com/nbn-write-down-confirms-its-national-importance/

The previous Coalition Government under the Minister for Communication Malcolm Turnbull promised: ‘a cheaper, good quality NBN, faster delivered’. It failed on all counts.

However, since it became clear that his government was unable to deliver on this promise, I knew that eventually something had to give. Instead of costing $25 billion as Mr Turnbull promised, the costs are now rapidly moving towards $60 billion. Under government policy, all of these costs had to be absorbed by the NBN company in the prices it charged to its retail customers.

Commentary

Australia’s National Broadband Network aka “fraudband” has been an unmitigated disaster since the former Liberal-National Party aka LNP coalition federal government took over from the Australian Labor Party aka ALP that had planned for the NBN to be one of the finest and most affordable in the world.

Actually, in our experience, “unmitigated disaster” is putting too pleasant a gloss upon it.

It’s far worse than that.

It has wrecked the capability of this nation and its workers to do their job, to innovate and to earn from foreign clients and the wreckers aka the LNP proved themselves to be traitors to all of us here in Australia.

Malcolm Turnbull awarded himself the very best and fastest NBN service to his private residence while the rest of us are forced to put up with sheer dreck.

The Guardian: Australian rental homes colder and more damp than WHO safety standards – Commentary

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/16/australian-rental-homes-colder-and-more-damp-than-who-safety-standards

“… Australian rental homes are colder and more damp than is considered safe by the World Health Organization, with homes in New South Wales so humid as to promote mould growth, a new report has found….

The WHO considers 18C as a “safe and well-balanced indoor temperature to protect the health of general populations during cold seasons” in temperate or colder climates….

Joel Dignam, the executive director of Better Renting, said taken together, the reports show just how substandard Australian dwellings are, no matter the weather.

“There are a lot of rentals that are too hot in summer and too cold in winter, and you barely get a reprieve,” Dignam said. “It’s a sense of fighting against your own home.”…”