Your point Lunchie "To expend it on things like the NBN and not on ports and loading facilities that are needed to speed up our vital exports" has a counter point and that is the expenditure on loading facilities will indeed speed exports but leave less for future generations to export. The NBN is a tough one for many non techies. The Liberal spokesman pointed out it will allow you to get IPTV full stop end of sentence. Actually it will do a bit more than that. Including allow our company to send 90% of its 75 staff home and making them more productive and happier to boot. We save $250K in prime office rent making us more productive and more able to compete with the competition in Asia where more of like jobs in my industry have relocated. However the real point of the NBN is that the uses that it will support have not been invented yet and indeed will come as a result of of it. Abbot laughed at the suggestion that the speeds will go from 100mb to 1gb as an election gimmick. Not so, any tech head will tell that optical fibre supports speeds at the speed of light and there is no new technology to supplant that. The increase in speed come from the routers connected at each end and will make the increase in speed possible. The NBN is forever and requires minimal maintenance because it carries light, nothing else. WIFI MAX requires power and will always be supplementary to fix line. It's a bet, no doubt, but it is something your grandkids will get more out of the empty port infrastructure.
