Two moments that will change Australia

The outcome of the NBN wrangling over the next two days and swelling vote for The Greens in Victoria will not only be pivotal for Australia but could also leave the Gillard government in deep trouble.

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Tim Walsh,

I'm finding hard to beleive that we've come to this (See Two moments that will change Australia, November 24). If the majority of Australians want the NBN to role out, why are so many people insisting on analysis that will be inaccurate? If you beleive a CBA will bring clarity, you're assuming the people producing it can accuratley predict 30 years into the future.
I don't beleive this is a ligitimate process. I urge any economist out there to prove otherwise? It seems that people are more interested in holding the government to account. This is important. So why have we not seen the details of the alternative, which is, the Coalition's broadband policy. If they insist the the NBN can be done cheaper, produce the detail for voters to analyse.
I wonder if voters would question this detail if it were on the table? If we only have one option for the upgrade of our communications infrastructure, then I suggest we take it as the more we delay, the more ignorent, ill informed comments cloud what we're actually doing here, which is upgrading infrastructure, critical to our economy.

Rod Mitchell,

Mandate? You are kidding us aren't you? (See Two moments that will change Australia, November 24.)
The majority of Australians actually chose the Coalition's plan with their first vote, and it has only been with the Greens' support that a minority government is now in a position to do something. So please spare us – there was no mandate for either view on the NBN, so let's listen to Australia and not, as the minority government is telling us, what we are going to have if we like it or not.

Frank Grant,

"But democracy does not privilege the views of the most able or best trained minds." (See Two moments that will change Australia, November 24.)
I cannot see how business leaders are qualified in a technical discussion. I bet most of them do not even use a computer.
The best trained minds in IT have agreed that fibre to the home is the best solution. The opinions of business leaders in this debate is equal to the opinion of the mass voting public.

Terry Mulligan,

As an electrician engineer, businessman, computer user, and voter, I believe the NBN proposal is seriously flawed (See Two moments that will change Australia, November 24).
Have no fear, if the NBN is rolled out, I will make a lot of money from the work generated for my business. Sadly, as a businessman, I also know there is already better technology being developed which will make the fibre to home redundant.
As a community member, I am aware that many people who have access to high speed data, do not use it and I am in an affluent area.
As a taxpayer I am dismayed at the spin put on this proposed rollout. For some reason people forget that spin is a distortion of facts, distortion is an untruth, an untruth is a lie.