by god - check this out!, page-48

"Actually I'm pretty sure Howard government had a agreement in place with a conglomerate consisting of optus,elders and Ammcom which was aimed at getting the internet where it was needed "the bush" it was pretty much ready to"

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Wow, it took Howard 11 years to get that crap OPEL project ready to roll before stopped it.

Telstra sued the Government due to the non transparent way the OPEL consortium won government monies... talk about cost benefit analysis, you want to research how Howard awarded $1 billion to OPEL...

Like I said, telco policy under Howard was a disaster...