"..now why would the government want access to credit card records and phone records ?... http://www.news.com.au/technology/new-digital-wiretap-laws-why-you-should-be-worried/story-e6frfro0-1226122786047
1984 alive and well."
Imagine how useful a government run NBN will be to intercept and monitor electronic communications for a socialist dictatorship...
Some things are too important to need a business plan to justify... Especially when you have an entire country that is being shoe-horned into a socialist dictatorship and you have to crush all resistance...