Hi oorain, politics aside I think we can all go along with this initiative. It would have been done by whoever is in government and rightly so. The reality is that the switch from analogue to digital is being forced on the pensioners and they are least able to absorb the cost of a set top box. So I acknowledge that what Gillard is doing would have been done by Abbott also. I havnt heard the Coalition reaction to this initiative but I would put money on it that they will support it.